" Yeah, that would be a real hoot at family reunions.)"Sweety, I think that there are going to be some changes around here from now on, unless of cour...e you think your friends might be interested in seeing these? Who knows, maybe some of your little girlfriends would enjoy a stay at our kennel too. You could have a pajama party." He grinned. For once I had no smart reply."By the way, Sweety," he inquired casually, flipping my short little skirt up over my hips, "what exactly did happen to those. "Positives are servants of humanity's survival," I recited."Institute propaganda," she said. "Or more accurately, the Director's propaganda." Is that what you think?" I asked coldly."No," she replied carefully. "But I'm a woman whose man is keeping secrets." Assigning a Healer to the Euro-Institute is a large enough gift that they have to accept the terms of the Director's proposed merger," I told her."I had to get involved with the only Positive who can, at will, heal a person's sex drive,". He can stem the need to sleep just through a power of will. Twenty four hours, forty eight, seventy two. It makes no odds to him. All the same, he feels the need to have the radio on. He gets a certain reassurance from the clipped British tones of the BBC World Service. He feels somehow aligned with ex-patriots, anglophiles, insomniacs and the just plain bored, when he tunes in. There’s a little of all of them in him, anyway. His shaking fingers turn the radio on, but as he withdraws his. There was however no sign of Kiran and Gautam yet. Aarushi too was in a leisure mood when her cell phone vibrated. It was a text message from Rahul – ‘Had a wonderful time last night’. She smiled and blushed, and then replied back with a smiley. And a reply came immediately – ‘let’s go out for coffee in the afternoon?’. ‘Not a bad idea. Where?’ asked Aarushi. And then after few exchanges of messages, they decided to spend the afternoon at a Barista near to their apartment.The rest of the day.