.. typical of a mid-week morning. The phone rang and I picked it up.“Nico, can you come to the house, please?” I heard Mama Alvarez ask me in a ve...y solemn tone.That was enough for me to answer “Yes, right away.” Mama Alvarez did not play act or over-dramatize. With apologies to Solomon, I was in her home less than a half hour later.“What is it, Mama? How can I help you?”“It is not me, Nico ... it is Marianna,” she said just as two little girls came running into the living room and greeted me. It'svery subtle."Kate got up from seat and walked behind me. She lifted up my hair andgazed at the tattoo and then walked back behind the desk and sat down."If that is the case then I think the girls will readily accept you,"Kate said with a smile. "Knowing that you are the property of anempowered woman will make all the difference to the other girls." Now there are some more delicate issues I would like to address," Katesaid. "Derek has informed me that you are incapable of having an. We have to teach her, don't we?"SLAP. SLAP! SLLAAPP! SSMMAACCKK! The young girl used the smooth, pliant plastic with innate skill, each stinging blow harder than the previous one. The slender seventeen year old went rigid with fear, breathing in deep, sobbing gasps as she recovered from her fall only to be subjected to this new indignity."Ow... owwww... ouucchh... ," she cried out weakly, "No... owww... ouchh!" She squirmed in agony as the other girl applied the plastic weapon with delighted. Fir achi tarah taiyaar ho kar uss address pe chala gaya. Mujhe thoda darr lag raha tha. Isliye pehle dur se hi building k aas paas ka nazara dekha. Flat first floor pe tha. Ek security guard baitha tha. Maine socha agar usne kuchh pucha toh koi jhuth bol dunga. Magar usne kuchh nahi puchha. Main first floor pe pahucha aur darwaje ke paas tha. Ghabragat ho rahi thi toh andar jaane se pehle maine shilpa ji ke number pe sms kiya “Main apke building k paas aa gaya hu”. Turant reply aaya ki 5 minute.