One was wider than the others. In the center of the room, arranged in an evenly spaced cluster, were short metal rods embedded into the stone, about a...hand-span in height. Welded to each by the middle of its chain was a pair of shackles.Each of the slaves was directed to stand with one of the rods between her feet, facing the wider doorway. Marris positioned her near the edge of the cluster to one side. He crouched at her feet and fit the shackles about her ankles, closing each one with a sharp. It's main advantage was that we didn't have to ride the school bus.On the first of February, we got word that Dad had been killed in an accident on the job. He had been working on a high-rise in Houston, and he fell from the tenth floor.Some of the guys he worked with said he had been drinking. Others said that the engineer in charge of the project had deliberately left out some to the safety precautions to speed up the job. The OSHA investigators declared the site to be unsafe, and shut down. Mathew was a Keralite. Sunanda hailed from Orissa. Sunanda and Mathew were residents of Jamshedpur. It had been only three months of their marriage. Sunanda’s father was Ajit Patanayek, an industrialist based at Jamshedpur. Mathew was a mechanical foreman in a local steel factory. Mathew was of six feet height and drove an Enfield Bullet motor cycle. One day while Sunanda was going to college, Mathew happened to see her providentially and got immediately smitten by her charms. Sunanda was fair,. Others followed life on the Windrunner and in Blue Harbour and Izmir and they even watched as Rory and Zahra put together their expedition and headed out to check out our first vehicle that we intended to salvage. It was overwhelming to think about and it was certainly putting smiles on the faces of every network executive involved in the consortium, but like I had pointed out before, they wanted more and I gave it to them.After returning to Oak Hall for a bite to eat and a change of clothing.