‘You need to trust me,’ he began. ‘I was sent by the school to keep you safe. I know how to neutralize the switch on this vest so it won’t exp...ode. Can you be really brave and let me work on it?’ The girl was still trembling when she nodded to Steve. He studied the device for a long minute before carefully taking a thin wire between his thumb and forefinger and tugging it. It pulled away from a small terminal as the girl gasped. When nothing else happened, she gave Steve a grin. ‘They may try. He was also like me a single parent where hiswife had died few years back and he had one son who was in a boardingcollege named Rahul, who was rarely seen. Raj was a macho man with agreat personality and he was a great womanizer.Then, slowly as days passed by I came closer and closer to Priya and withthat I came to know about feminism and womanhood. I became more and moreemotional. I cried when Priya went to her College party dressed in asaree. Every day, I used to wash all her clothes. Holding it by the sheath, he vaulted the wall that marked the Arena floor to take his spot.“Do we have any other nominations?” The fourth asked again.A man nudged the one next to him, who swallowed and stood.“I nominate...”There were six men standing at the circle’s border when silence greeted the fourth Graybeard’s invitation. Next to Kort was Knyut, then Tait, Svend, Enar, Aric and finally Mar. Kort met John’s gaze again, eyebrows raising in question. The Overlord was just shrugging when a. ”My brain got going again. This was Sam. We were buds. She didn’t want to have sex. She was just exploring new territory.“How about if we wore underwear?” I suggested.She gave me a stare.“That sort of defeats the point, and anyway, you said we should sleep nude out here,” she said.Doubts assailed me. Just a few seconds ago I thought I knew what she wanted. But did I?“What, exactly, to you want to get out of this?” I asked.Finally she had to stop and think.“I don’t think I can explain it,” she.