"Beloved Amaru wrote a hundred-verse shātāka, honouring the women he met. Now that he has entered the system, the women are carrying on the work of the shātāka, telling their own stories in collaboration with the virus. What we have here is a hostile takeover, with multiplying stories, cascading, crashing, and soaring.

If it isn't clear yet, I was one of Amaru's lovers."