The man stepped into the weak pool of light – it was Ravi. A rush of relief mixed up with embarrassment at her needless fear and inaction washed ove... Priya and brought back with a vengeance her annoyance with the man before her.Ravi smiled and held up a set of the front door keys and security card. “Sorry if I startled you Ma’am,” he said, polite as always. Priya forced herself to smile back, fighting not to let her irritation show. “It’s perfectly alright Mr. Ravi, I was startled, that’s all,”. Omby stayed behind them in the shadows, as they came to the throne room. The large throne room was supported by huge stone pillars. The pillars lined up and down on either side of the room. In the middle was a stone table stacked with large amounts of food. They saw Kaliko sitting at the top of black marble steps on the throne. His feet hanging because it was three times bigger then him. It was made of the same black marble. "Ladies please come in, I've been expecting you. Have something to. I set out my suitcases and the big steamer trunk. Tomorrow I was going home, and then in a day or two, because I was already packed, I was off for California to settle in to my new life. I sat down on the trunk, and I welled up, and tears came to my eyes. Less than a day, and I had already broken my vow. Maybe that’s why I cried myself to sleep that night. I didn’t know. It felt different this time. I wasn’t so much emptiness as forlornness. I took a shower, and I felt better again. I finished. The young girl standing in line in front of me was wearing a skintight pair of pink Spandex pants with an equally tight pink jogging bra made out of the same material. All I could do was whisper under my breath, “What an adorable ass.” The girl turned around, smiled at me and said, “Fifty bucks.”She went through the checkout with her bottle of flavored water with vitamins added. When I got through the check out and opened the door to go into the parking lot that same girl asked, “Do we have a.