At performances, backstage, at a round table meet with the team, away from the 13, the one question that haunted us everywhere was "What made you a team?" We wondered for ages, and found our answer in the ages, "Time, we gave it time." we finally said. "How long did it take?" Was the next question and it haunted us again.
"A year? A month? A day? A second?! What's that?" and I guessed it was the post 9 p.m. practices. It was the first time that something got into our aura and tore us apart from the very core for none of us agreed to the other. There were times that only one of us thought, then a few, then all of us, there were times we walked away to attend something so stupid that a few days down the line we wouldn't have cared if we had attended it or not. There were phases that we crashed through, broke out and struggled to get into the "aura", and we still clash but now we amend and find a way around. But this time, there was no way around.
We fought over it till the clock stopped ticking, it squeaked, it neighed, it quacked but it did not tick, and when it did, it clocked the in opposite direction and took us back to the time when we were, "Dramastra", we were not in "AURA", always. A few of us tried to get into, but beggars can't buy pride. We defended, they attacked, we sculptured, they broke, we stayed, they left.
"It's seven, I need to leave", "I'll leave at 5 okay?", "I have classes at 6" and if not at that point, then we would have never realised the flaw. We were a prey to something that was nonexistent, something we created, for a reference. Something that runs for us, not the other way round. We found ourselves the totem to Aura, the idol to being one, and we cut them loose, the boundaries, and that was the flaw.
P.S. To, "How long did it take?"
"Time hai hi kahan? Bas tum ho aur hum hai." - Team Aura
("What is time? It's just you and me")
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