He walked down to the living room, his heart beating hard with a faint hope. Maybe she had finally done it.She sat in the lotus position, in front of ... lit brazier, tendrils of aromatic smoke twirling in front of her, oblivious to his arrival. He stared at her, unwilling to break her trance. He watched her for a long time, trying to etch her features, her body into his memory.She opened her eyes.As soon as she saw him she struggled to get on her knees, a bit stiffly after sitting for so long in. I stared at the silver streaks that now lined my waist-length hair, not too much, and wondered if I looked as old as I felt sometimes? The phone clicked in and began to ring at his end. I could not believe, at my age I was as nervous as a school girl. I could feel goosebumps forming as I waited for Jack to answer. I was a nervous girl waiting to hear from her first crush, and not knowing exactly what to say. Yet somehow, hearing Jacks voice made everything better, almost at once. We talked for. “Which one is ours, Richard?” Diana asked.“Which one would you prefer for raising our children in, my dear?The short drive took us to our destination, with Gloria waiting outside for us.Diana was on the phone with Anne about this, so Faith was on my arm. She was beaming like a new bride.As I started signing, my wife told me ‘They are very happy,’ and the documents they had there had us buying the home severally as unmarried people.Faith went up to ‘Pick out’ her room.During this, I casually. Right now she didn't have the time to do that.She headed back down the hall, to her room. She walked past Atelan, who was still moping on the sofa, without a sound. She got dressed for her dinner.As she walked out of her room, Atelan let out a shriek.Lissa was wearing a dress that was a collection of a dozen brown inch and a half wide canvas strips hanging from a collar around her neck. The strips went down to mid-thigh. Her only other cover was a narrow brown belt that held one strip in place.