My mother-in-law asked me whether I hadtelegrammed them{our relatives}about our arrival or not to this Isaid yes I had informed them by telegram but t...ey might have notreceived it which is very common in this rural area.we waited foranother 15 mins before deciding that it was already very late andthat we should go to our village on our own.so we started to look forsome conveyance.but it was so late that there were no rickshaws orany bus.all that was there were a few tangas.seeing no. I needed it to keep the shop open and she needed a paycheck. I could hear Lacey moving around behind me as I slipped on a pair of latex gloves and swung my magnifying light over the broken hard drive. I glanced back to see her sitting on a stool by the register watching me. I smiled and nodded. She nodded back but did not smile. With a soft sigh, I turned back to the work at hand. When I had the mule drive assembled, I would see what she had wanted earlier. Gingerly I lifted the top disk up and. I was just charged particle of electrical energy, caught in the vast black void of space, and time. You can’t push against something you can’t see, touch, or feel with a knife that is attached to the thing that was trying to kill you, but in my mind’s eye I tried to move the knife, not knowing if I was doing right or wrong. I could have been pushing the knife through the vacuum of space, or a pool of water. I said a prayer to the God I discovered in the forests of Alaska. I asked Him if I could. One such Sunday, in December, last year, when Kusum and Rajat had their pre-board, I decided to give them practice tests in the afternoon and also to Rik and Nik who had their 10th finals shortly. Divya was free after her semesters and she and I decided to watch a movie on my laptop. So went locked ourselves in my room, to avoid disturbing others and began watching. Divya, that day, was looking unusually different, which I couldn’t understand. She straight away rested herself on my chest,.