Acquiescing, Magni moves to Lakshmi's side and takes a seat, taking care not to disturb the spirit. She reaches with one of her legs, gently hooks her foot closest to Lakshmi behind Lakshmi's own. Quiet contact, support, because reaching for her hand while they're trying to eat would just be unhelpful.

Perhaps it is just as well that Magni is so much inclined to be quiet; with the spirit there she hardly knows what she might say, whether to offer comfort, to soothe, or that it would not feel oddly disrespectful to say in front of the city that Lakshmi mourns daily.

Eventually, she looks to Lakshmi. "How are the dead honoured in Jhansi?"