We found both men in a discussion with Eamon in the library; Eamon huffed when we entered, and excused himself, leaving us alone.I sighed. "He's never...getting over this, is he?"Alistair wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "I don't care. He can go to the Void, for all his opinion matters to me."I looked up at him in surprise, and he smiled ruefully at me. "I've been thinking about what you – what everyone – has been saying. About how he treated me, growing up, and about how he's acted since. "When she got up, my eyes lingered on her dark bush again, but I don't think she noticed. I don't know why I kept eyeing her ass when she walked to my desk either. It shouldn't really have been that captivating.Suddenly mom threw something at me."Whoa!" I protested, barely managing to catch the folder full of papers she had tossed to me."Now get to working on that presentation you're been slacking off with, before your professor gets mad," mom said.She had again put on the oversized sweater she. ‘Scream and I’ll slit your throat, Baasu,’ the man said in a rough voice, the word Baasu echoed in her mind as it was said with such a hatred, Sarah was sure that he was going to kill her. She wanted to shake her head and protest, but she couldn’t move with the edge of the sharp knife pressed against her jugular. She closed her eyes and fought for breath, needing to make this man see that she wasn’t a Baasu. ‘I – not – Baasu –,’ was all she could manage to get out before she felt the blade. "Of course it did not, foolish boy! I am a cleaner of dirt, not an eater of dirt!" She kept laughing until she saw just how relieved Tony looked."Actually," she went on, "your kundi tastes better than some other parts of your body. Would you believe it is a little sweet?" I'm not sure I do believe that. I wonder if... next time... I could do the same for you—" Next time?" Her eyebrows shot up. "I mean, if... I just thought..." I was only joking. Of course you can," she said. "I am looking.