Milo turned to look at me, his expression remaining the same – eerily blank – the whole while. The smile was quickly wiped off my face, and I gave...a quick shudder. Did I do something wrong? Did he know something? Were we fighting now? I didn’t like that I had to ask these questions.*How do you prepare for a date if you’ve never had one before? I wasn’t sure, so I covered the basics – clothes, hygiene, and asking your over-controlling family for terrible advice. “You want to know what you are. Fir Preeti boliPreeti: Yes mam, what do you want?Main: Mujhe Principal Sir se milna hai.Preeti: Sir abhi ek meeting mein hai, unko time lag jayega. To aap message de dijiye, main unko aapka message de doongi.Main jaanti thi, ki andar kaun si meeting chal rahi hai aur usi ka maza lene main wapas aayi thi. Fir maine Preeti ko bola.Main: Mujhe kuch zaroori baat karni hai Sir se, to main meeting khatam hone tak wait karti hu unki.Preeti: Ok Mam, jaisa aap chaahe.Preeti ne andar ka scene dekh liya. I walked a bit east of north. Soon there was no sound other than that of Australia. No cars. No airplanes. No radios. There was brush and red earth and a few tufts with white flowers. I came to some small hills and put down my swag it the sparse shade, and sat on it. I drank a little water. I thought of where I was. People had been here 50,000 years ago and more. They had lived and hunted and died. I looked around. I could die here.The sun sank and the shade deepened. An early kite (I thought). One of the things I knew about from my last job was that there was asymptom called nasal fatigue, where, if you are exposed to the samesmell for any period of time, you stop noticing it. Your nose can'tcontinue signalling the same thing indefinitely. It wasn't until I cameto re-apply the perfume next morning that I realised that after thefirst few moments of that first day, I had hardly even noticed I waswearing it. For Helen, on the other hand, I must have signalled mypresence freshly every.