I said hi!! Its like gods have really pissed of today …she smiled, chai !!! I volunteered.we had a smoking cup of tea at the stall and a lit a speci...l filters , just one which was not totally wet.through the smoke we started conversing on trivia.she was working as a advt executive in pune and had come for a client presentation and had to reach pune the next day as she was getting engaged to and IT yuppie NRI. I felt like cursing the gods for this non resident idiot. Suddenly there came a sumo,. Although he seemed in a grim mood, he stopped to exchange a few sentences with Ben, shook his hand, wished him Good Luck, and bade him Goodbye. Christine was watching them from behind the glass. Once Gerd had gone, she gave Ben a wave to come into the office.Christine had obviously been angry. She reached into her desk and took out a bottle of Schnapps and held it questioningly in Ben’s direction. When he nodded, she produced two glasses to pour a generous shot. Throwing back her head Christine. Everyone had formed a mental seal to try and block some of the stress of working in the prison, a way to work on autopilot. The imaginative energy needed to hold a conversation would tear a hole in that seal, letting guilt and despair soak into their minds like a poison.He got his punch card stamped, then a receipt slipped out of a slot below the clock. It was his list of his assignments for today. Before reading, he stepped into the nearby employee break room. It was routine for those arriving. But then something caught his mind’s eye. It was one specific fantasy, of her standing there in a wedding dress next to her betrothed. Erik had noticed before that the groom had no face, no well defined form in her mind. He interpreted it as in she simply hadn’t decided who that was yet. But that day he recognized something, recognized the haze around that groom. He had seen it before. It was a shroud in the mind, used to hide something. The more someone did not want to confront something, the.