In a blink, he shoots from the corner and past me, to a flashing panel on the wall beyond. ‘CYPRESS!’ I roar – and he stops. He freezes. His ha...d is paused over the blinking panel, and now I notice the bags of plastic explosive that he’s gathered. I wonder how many he’s already got set up. His eyes staring wide at me me – not blinking. ‘…what are you doing…?’ I say finally. ‘Something is really really wrong,’ he whispers. ‘Really really wrong.’ ‘I know – it’s okay,’ I tell him – but he. They were fresh stitches too, Alene could tell. The eyes were bloodshot; the irises white and ghostly.‘Oh God,’ Alene thought. The once alert, bright blue eyes were gone. Now he had dead eyes. And the nose too! The long, straight Roman nose she had loved to trace with her pinkie finger after they’d made love; it was crooked and broken, mashed to a pulp.One shoulder sat higher than the other; the bone on the left side broken and jutting out, causing an unevenness in the body. The skin was. Kab bheju?Turant Shobha sir utha kar mujhe dekh phone mein boli: Theek hai, bhejti hoon aur haan ache se lena uski. Ha ha ha!Fir Shobha phone kaatte hue khadi hui aur mujhe lund pakde hue dekh boli: Chalo bas karo aur jakar naha lo. Tumhe kahi jana hai.Main lund ko firse hilate hue mazakiya roop se bola: Kaha? Aapke bedroom mein?Shobha: Shut up, mazaak nahi kar rahi. Meri friend ka phone tha, Neha ka.Main lund hilate hue hi unki baato ko suntan raha.Shobha: Uska yahi ek textile testing ka. At that time the island was called Formosa with an infamous history that went all the way back to the 17th Century and the Dutch East India Company and the heroin trade. Now it is Taiwan, the Republic of China (ROC) or Free Democratic China to some.Several years ago an unknown force, for a as yet unknown reason, had literally blown up the House of Chang on Taiwan. They had done a thorough job, killing everyone but her. That she lived was a fluke she was told latter, that she survived without.