I stayed at that truck stop for an hour or so and had a meal and cleaned myself up. There were plenty of trucks outside and I knew I wouldn't have a p...oblem getting a ride. I approached the driver of the first truck in a long line, parked on the south bound side of the road, and asked him if I could get a lift to Adelaide. This was one of those really big trucks with a sleeping cabin in the back, which would be far more comfortable than fucking in the passenger seat. The driver looked at me. So, here we were in Mysore. Separate rooms but together, not a couple but a pair.I had a shower and relished the warm water cascading through my hair and over my body, cleansing the sweat of the day. I walked into the bedroom from the shower, a towel around my waist and stood by the open window looking out over the lush gardens with the pool, blue in the evening sun, trees like something out of the Jungle Book, grass freshly watered and exotic flowers in well-ordered borders. I watched a woman. The power that had been gone for the last two and a half months was suddenly there again, a raging river that ran through his entire body. He grabbed onto it with all of his strength and held out his hand, trying to get a ball of pure light to appear. He could feel it moving through his fingers but it never appeared in the world and he sighed in frustration as he released it and let it go back to where it flowed from. 'You need your focus,' Daiya said when she noticed what he was doing. 'It's. " He shrugged helplessly. Flora gave him a look of mock fury. "OOhh! How could you!" she said as he climbed off her and headed for the bathroom, "You wind me up and then desert me?! I'll show you!" she called after his retreating back. When Jason returned, Flora had disappeared. He stood in the doorway of the bathroom, staring at the empty bed. "Why, that fickle little wench," he muttered to himself. He headed toward the nightstand for his slippers... ...and got a big surprise. .