Eshani Kulkarni
She arrives early enough to watch players perform the tournament handshake twice, once for the board and once for the room. She still resents the salon supervisor who taught her that a delayed appointment was never an accident, a lesson that now informs her account of late pairings, ceremonial apologies, and games lost before the clocks begin.
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