She is not just a beautiful woman to me. She is all of the beauty in the universe focused in one place. I don’t just see her beauty, I feel it in th... very depths of who I am. She took in half a breath and awoke with a bit of a start, opening her green eyes and focusing them on me. Her lips spread into a sleepy smile as love shone from her eyes. ‘Hi,’ she said, her smile widening. ‘Are you just lying there staring at me?’ ‘I am,’ I replied, returning her smile. ‘Of course I am. You really are so. There is an exception to every rule; iron was color-coded, both red and blue. Worn out equipment was smelted into ingots and recycled into new tools by a team of women who specialized in metallurgy and blacksmithing.Broken, destroyed, or misplaced equipment necessary to the colony’s survival were, according to Sheila, “a critical loss.” Advanced electronics, radio transmitters, and computers at the top of her worry list.“We’re going to have to make do with whatever we have on hand when the shit. ” It was a lie, as I had never once mentioned him to her, but she knew how to feed into his overinflated ego. He ate it up.He took her hand and kissed it, “Enchanted, my dear, simply enchanted. Please, call me Jake.”He didn’t introduce his wife, and she did not attempt to introduce herself. I felt sorry for her, so I smiled and extended my hand. “You must be Mrs. Sanders,” I said, not knowing her first name, “I am Mark Miller, and this is my wife, Antonia. Welcome to our Christmas party.”She. I told him to wait for a minute and called my dad and asked him how much time will it take for him to return. He told me that he will be directly returning at the dinner time a his meeting was delayed. I was a little happy from inside. I took my wallet out and checked for money. I had 1500 from my savings with me. I went to him and said “1000 tak koi dilvado” then he said “bhaiya 1000 mein toh ladki ki maa milegi” i was a little pushed back as I was never used to such language then I told him.