It gets almost 20 most of the time. But then, I really don't step on it very often. I normally drive a ten year old Honda, but I wanted to take Miss R...bin out for a spin." Miss Robin? You named your car Miss Robin," asked Miss Rebecca."Of course, I name all my cars after women. My Honda is named Julie."Miss Scarlett asked, "What, no Miss Julie, only Miss Robin?" Why yes; my mother always told me to treat all women as ladies until they proved to me they weren't. Julie is a troublesome old bitch,. What should she wear? She thought about wearing one of the western clothes he had bought her. But eventually decided on a sari. ‘Going to work, Mansi?’ Deshmukh aunty asked. ‘Yes, aunty.’ she said, climbing down the stairs. At 11:25, she was waiting for the car. It pulled up at 11:40. Purposely late, as per Dutt’s instructions. ‘How was your…’ Mansi started saying as as opened the door and got in. And stopped. There was no one there. She heard a whirring sound. The partition separating her from. I screeched in impotent fury as I dodged and dived. I struggled to together more spirits. While a horde of them danced around him. They were so thick about him, a sea of reds and blues swimming back and forth, I could hardly see him in the middle now. As we flew over the lands, he swept up even more, pulling them to him. They rose from the ground, from the sky, from the forest.But less and less came for me.The beams came faster and faster. I clutched to the few abjuration spirits I had, kept. Ally ruminated.Clearly her efforts to talk things out with him and end their relationshipwas not going to happen today. She looked to her phone one last time, shitno response Ally realized. For a moment, she thought it over. Then shedecided to execute swift action. She went to her contacts, and not onlydeleted but blocked Mike's number. She nearly deleted some photos of him,but held back on that. Perhaps save a memento, she thought wistfully. Now,onto getting together with Claire......"Oh....