Was it too presumptuous of her to imagine... "When you could not be found, I presumed you dead. My father advised me that to counter the issue of an h...ir to the throne, I should marry and sire a child, preferably a boy child.Their eyes met and held."I was married a year ago."Vishi looked away, her hopes dashed."An arranged marriage," he continued, "between powerful Grok families."Vishi tried not to show the pain she felt."Then I am simply a year too late," she stated. "Perhaps you would be so. Only a week or two at most. He would complete his revengeand then vanish without a trace. He unzipped the suitcase and stared atthe object that occupied most of the space inside. Olivia's empty facestared back at him. Her mouth was empty, as were the eye holes. Otherthan that, every feature, every line had been copied by hand in theminutest detail. Olivia's dirty blonde hair was there too. All that wasmissing was someone to fill it up.Robert reached in and gently pulled the mask out of the. "What do you mean, Sonu?" she asked."Where do we go from here? Do we go back to just being a brother and sister again, or how do we deal with this?" I don't think that we can go back, Sonu" Didi said, "we walked through a door that is closed behind us. We're on the other side of the door, don't you think? Can you think of me as just your elder sister?" What?" I queried."Yes, now, every time your look at me, you won't see your Didi, your elder sister that you used to see, that you used to feel. But then he thought about how weird that might be. She did run off after that strange experience. He doesn’t know what the hell it was or what it meant, but from Rory’s reaction she didn’t like it. So in the end he opted to eat some instant oatmeal.The oatmeal created a new dilemma for Chance. Rory is obviously a healthy eater and she obviously loves oatmeal. Her cabinet is filled with box after box of the stuff. She has everything from Maple & Brown Sugar to Raisin, Date & Walnut to.