1. If your chair could whisper one secret about its past, what would it say? "Once, I sat in the corner of a palace library. The king’s daughter used me to climb up and steal books meant only for scholars. I still carry the faint smell of dust and secrets." 2. What would a pencil dream about when it is not being used? "I dream of sketching the outline of a mountain against the morning sky. I want to leave marks so bold they will never fade. But I always wake up half-sharpened, waiting for someone’s hand." 3. Imagine a door that opens, not to a room, but to a memory—whose memory is it? "It opened into my grandmother’s kitchen—red chillies drying on strings, a brass pot bubbling, the smell of turmeric everywhere. For a moment, time stood still. Then the door shut quietly, as if it had never been there." 4. If colors could argue, what would red and blue fight about? "Red would insist it owns passion, festivals, and courage. Blue would laugh an...