”Renuka was very fair, also with long hair. She was wearing a white saree with golden border, which was adding to her beauty. “Hi Akash, I have co...e to see you. Won’t you welcome me?” she said with a sweet smile. I said, “Hi.” Soon we had our dinner.The three of them helped me have the dinner as I was injured and my hand was fractured. My mom and aunt helped me reach my bed. They turned off the light and left the room with the doors wide open. Later that night I heard a series of laughter. I. “Look! Close your eyes for a minute. Trust me.”Trust? I couldn’t imagine anything further from my mind.Tara’s face softened and she lifted my head up by the chin until I was looking into her eyes. She gently moved a strand of hair away from my eyes and tucked it back around my ear.“I’m not going to do anything to you. I just want you to see something. Please trust me.”Looking straight into her eyes like that, I realized that she really was being sincere. I gave her the tiniest nod and closed my. ' Oh, he was sick with worry!He decided to go out and look for her, even though he was drunk and it was very dark out. He would bring a lantern and ride his horse. Yes, that's what he would do! He put on his jacket and stumbled out of the house and got on his horse and headed out into the dark night.He rode out to the pool and river and walked along up and down with his lantern, searching, for something, anything that would lead him to her. Then he looked across the water and decided he had to. The judge walked away and her bailiff took a seat on a bench in the noontime sun, waiting to watch the spectacle to come (and to enforce the rules if he felt like it). Three men, brothers, stepped onto the stocks plinth and walked around her, regarding her like a piece of meat. All three brothers were influential and powerful in the town and probably were the main conspirators behind her predicament. She was thankful for the small blessing that the stocks held her knees in place and prevented.