She is in the bathroom. I turned and locked the room. Now what?“I am in the bathroom Arun. Is the door closed?”“Yes chechi.”“Good. Now come ...nside.”“Inside the bathroom chechi?”“Yha. Come fast.”Oh my god, I don’t know what will happen now. She just asked me to come into bathroom. I slowly approached the bathroom door and opened it. The bathroom is pretty spacious. Like Anushka chechi’s room itself it has a huge mirror attached to the wall. And there at the other end of the bathroom Anushka. “Give her one for me, Africanus!”There was the ring in that last of a half-mocking nickname. Dracontius looking up and giving a half-hearted smile as he held her down. Her right hand felt blindly around for a new weapon, found a stone in the turf nearby. She could strike him with it, be up and away ... but where?This part of the dream made her want to wake. She knew what was coming next, and it confounded her, even horrified her. But she could not wake.She felt a wild urge rising inside her.. ”“When?” I asked.“Friday, if you can. A graduate from Loyola who majored in English and minored in computers. He’s been doing manuals for SPSS for the last two years. They hired him right out of college.”“Sure. Set it up. What’s his name?”“Jack Kern. He can come during his lunch hour. I take it you don’t need more than fifteen minutes?”“That’s usually enough,” I said. “Let me know what you decide about the other two spots!”“Zo and I will hash it out,” he said.“‘Zo’?”“Zo, yeah,” Alonzo grinned.. But I didn't have much time to think during the attack. Now that I've been lying here, knowing how close I was to dying, I am terrified. It's not just guilt over Linda. I am afraid to go out. I don't know if I could defend myself, much less somebody else, if a kid says boo!"I am such a wimp. Those guys could have gutted me like a fish, and I couldn't do anything. I didn't know karate, or have mace, or anything. Pathetic."I sighed. "Look, Antonio, I am no therapist. You should really work with.