Ami ajker suyog ta charte chaichilam na. Ami Sonalir chokhe chokh rekhe bollam, “Sonali, tumi ekhon amar samne ekta garam rase bhorti guud chara ar ...ichu noye. Aaj ke ami tomake tariye tariye mon bhore sara tat dhore chodbo.” Ami amar hath diye amar payjama te khule nilam aar Sonalir hath ta niye amar khara hoye jawa bara tar oopor rekhe dilam. Sonali amar laura ta sakto kore dhore bollo, “Oh koto baro tomar laura ta, Partho.” Ami Sonali ke bollam, “haan, amar bara ta besh baro, aar eta ekhun. Brent must have been woken when we were but sensibly avoided the coming crisis."Eat!" Ma had spoken to Doug. She'd told him before that he wasn't going to have to be the bad cop to her good cop and intended to show she could be as tough as him."We are both disappointed in the pair of you. We counselled you both to go slowly and to wait until you had your studies out the way and what did you do? Jump into bed at the first opportunity."I tried to comment but Ma held up a hand to stop me. "You'll. Also, he was eyeing me because I was still female bodied, and thought he could try to get away with sexually molesting me or worse. My older brother, Joshua, was luckily there to protect me from any further advances my father might've tried to make. I often had to shield my sister Aiyanna from any advances he'd tried to make on her. Finally, when I turned twenty-two, I decided to join the local Two Spirit group within the community, denounced to my mother not knowing. It would take a couple. "You too, Matthew. And you as well, Mister Jennings. Perhaps you can transmit my explanation to the men when we are done."All three of them, along with Caroline, William, and Lucy, were sitting in the parlor minutes later drinking tea."Tell us now, sir," Lieutenant Jennings urged. "We looked everywhere for you." Within reason," Torrington said."He was nowhere reasonable at all," Caroline interjected. "He was washed ashore on an island populated nearly entirely with young Greek women." It was a.