All those events ran through my mind. When he saw me he gave a sly smile towards me. As my husband also knew him they spoke for a few minutes.Later I ...ame to know that the groom is a close school friend of Ramesh. As Chandran and Ramesh are work friends, Chandran was also invited. My husband sat with his friends there and was busy talking. I was busy doing the simple wedding chores.Ramesh constantly nudged me and smiled. Whenever he got a chance he would touch me. But I just ignored it. The. Then she would catch me staring at her and I would get ‘that’ look! She always thought my stares had to do with sex, that I was just looking at her because I wanted her. She never knew that I couldn’t stop staring because I couldn’t believe she had chosen me, that I couldn’t believe out of all the men in the world mine was the heart she wanted to touch. And I couldn’t stop staring because I knew, in time, she would leave me and I wanted to soak up every moment with her and lock it away. She said it takes a while for a superior to learn to recognize the feeling, but now that I had found one such man, I would find more. And I’d recognize that same resonance in women, as often as in men. Such people are worshipers of the Goddess, but probably without even realizing it. Our temple needed a gardiner, so the next day, I met the man again on Yonge Street, and brought him here.”“Is he permitted to leave, or will he remain forever?” asked Zephyra.“Both. He is welcome to go whenever he. I knew not to speak while he was continuing to think. “I’ll give you a week. You said you knew people like me, like my friends. Send some of them here, to talk to me. I want to hear it from them myself.”“Consider it done, Oswald.” I stepped around and got back into my armor. “And ... I’ll send a team up to Bradberton. People that know. We’ll see if we can find something, if Rachel is still up there.” He looked up at me, and I could see hope in his eyes. “I told you I’m the Governor of the.