Men and women stood on either side. Each held a length of green wood or a bundle of birch, rose-thorn or nettles from the woodland around them.“Vid ...oes not grant death easily” the priest said, and he held his sword to Kristina’s lips to be kissed. Courteously gesturing her to step aside, he moved past and strode between the two lines of worshippers to the centre of the clearing. Here there was a four-faced obelisk taller than a man, where he turned and waited with the sword at his shoulder,. “I know just what you need right now. You want to lick my feet while I watch my TV show? It starts in a few minutes.”“Yes please, Emilia,” I mumbled without meeting her eye.“Then tomorrow, how about you come to the salon with me and watch me get my pedicure? Then maybe afterwards we can pick out a new pair of shoes for me. Sound good?”“Yes, Emilia.” I sniffled. I knew Emilia's shoe purchaser had just been added to my list of responsibilities.“Okay, now come take off my other sock,” she said,. She could also feel just what a wonderful person he was, and she dared hope he may be just as wonderful as Jack had been.When they'd finally revealed him to her, she couldn't believe her eyes. It was like getting zapped in the face with a bolt of electricity. Every nerve in her body felt alive, her brain was whirling, but her vision faded and she felt like nothing was making sense. Then the visions started. The visions: they came at her in a wide variety of unbelievable colors. Colors no one. —– That next week was like weird all ways. I’ll have to skip though some of this real briefly, because it kind ofisn’t part of the story. But it kind of is too, and it’s also kind of funny. Sunday it’s kind of a family tradition that I go over to my father’s for the evening meal if Mom’s working, which she was. And it’s been kind of like traditional for a couple of years now for Dad to ask me whether I’d got a girfriend yet. And of course I couldn’t tell him, so I sort of didn’t answer, which.