Every other week I borrowed one. Most of the time I was alone in the hardcore area. Only one black guy was there now and then at one of the small tabl...s smoking a cigarette.--One day, when I just happened to have the video with the boy on the chair in my hands, he stood beside me. ?Hm? What do you think? He’s playing really good, isn’t he?? I looked at him. He was in his thirties and about 6 feet tall. ?Too bad he did only three videos. But these three were all he needed to finance his. Stephen wasn’t sure what surprised him more: that someone had dared to do that or that it hadn’t been taken down.He headed on through the building, along corridors lit by only bare light bulbs. Peeling paper and dingy paint told of years of neglect. He turned a corner and followed a narrow staircase down.Opening the old dark brown door at the bottom, he went in.“Hi! Great!” A shout of welcome greeted him from one of the group of twenty or so men inside the room. He knew quite a few of them by. She began to sob. "I don't know how soon," she began, "In my mother's race the term is five months, in my father's race the term is six. I just don't know." Well how long have you been pregnant Tani?" Naomi asked."Almost five months." Then you are near your time no matter which parent you take after just as I thought," Naomi confirmed.Naomi crossed the small room and began to stroke her hand through Tani's white with black streaks hair in an attempt to console her friend.Tani looked up at Naomi. ”She blew out the second candle.“Oh, great Agun-Ral-Tora! Come into me!”She blew out the third candle and darkness enveloped her.Marie paused for moment as she sat in the middle of the triangle. She took a deep breath and closed her eyes. The ritual was almost over There was only one last phrase to say and the most difficult to pronounce. She raised her hands up as she said the words of an ancient and mystical language, whose meaning had been lost in the mists of time.“Agun-Ral-Tora! Sla kelum.