”Knock knock knock!I raised my head from the pillow. “Otie! Get--!” Then I remembered that my changeling brother was missing. In fact, that coul... be him, if he had forgotten his key! I quickly pulled on my boxers and raced out to the living room as the knock came again.I really should get into the habit of checking the peephole, but I was tired, and worried for Otie. I pulled the door open to reveal a slim, pretty redhead in a robe. “Vicky?” Kate and I had just been discussing the woman from. “ Selfishness, in milder forms, like you have described to me, is a lack of consideration and respect. Again you felt inferior and your self-esteem was (is) affected.” Yet again, I could not look at her but nodded. “I am sorry for dumping all this on you. It’s stupid of me to burden you…” “Stupid!” Michelle exclaimed. “Stupid is the right word but used in the wrong context. I need you to look at me.” Her expression was quite stern indeed. “Stupid is a word that could be applied to you only if. Shruti is her name. She was just damn. She’s got the “put a ring on my finger eyes”… I was just dumbstruck on seeing her and words didn’t come out of my mouth. I was like, god, please don’t embarrass me now. I was speechless and she was giggling. We then started off to talk and we pretty much become good friends within a short time. We boarded the flight and kept talking all along. We reached Chennai and she bid me a goodbye hug and gave her number.I was busy for a few days and I didn’t get an. On the deck below, Selim grinned as he stood at the ship's wheel. The steersman worked bare-chested in the warm night. For hours, he had been catching the scents of flowers and spices in his hawk-like nose. Port Ruby was his home, so there would be no cheap sailor's carousing for him. He was going straight into the arms of the women who loved him and waited for him. Perhaps the time had come to give up voyaging and work as a harbor pilot.At the leeward rail, Thor pulled down his sailcloth.