DD JVLR ferry edition

I'm riding a Kinetic scooty on JVLR. The traffic is dense, so dense that cars and people aren't able to move at all. Some guy, also on a scooty, takes a left into an alley surrounded by jhopdis. I see him force his way onto a ferry with his bike. It's a super crammed space. From where I'm standing, I trace the ferry's path by sight and figure it's going to get me to the other side sooner than by road. I follow the dude and force my way onto the packed ferry as well. Other passengers grumble and groan.

Once on, someone asks aloud in Marathi if anyone has binoculars on them. I ask why, to which he says he would've used them to look beyond the horizon and tell us what the weather's going to be like. It's already getting super drizzly. 

I reach the other side and my father calls. He asks where I am, I tell him. He says he's bored of bombay, of this weather, and can't wait to go back. I want to tell him about this one small pond near me that is collecting pristine rainwater, but I refrain. I get off the ferry.

I'm on our building terrace, except it looks nothing like our actual terrace. I'm shirtless, for some reason. I take the lift down and two guys - both college-going stoners - enter. They are both engrossed in some video, which they're watching on one of the guys' cell phones. I get off the elevator and decide to walk around the building. It's late at night and very, very quiet. The streets around the building compound are silent and empty. 

I decide to go back up via A wing. But there's patches of tiny gardens lining the walkway around the perimeter of the building. Lazing around in those patches are baby crocodiles. One section of the building has scaffolding, and the ends of the bamboo chutes have transformed into actual barking dogs. I freak out at all of it and take a big jump high in the air straight above the baby crocs and land safely beyond their reach. They don't even notice me, nor do they budge.

Someone calls and tells me Amar found Shruti. They say once he asked for 'Shrutikala' he was led straight to her, and the reason he wasn't able to find her earlier is because he kept asking for Shruti the whole time. I'm laughing and trying to think of someone I know whose short name we call them by and no one even knows their actual name.

But no name comes to mind.