"What is all this racket, I said you could stay if ... Ohh. He's awake."The woman made her way to my bedside, pushing several of the people clustered ...round me out of the way to make room. She started reading the machines and checking on the various tubes and wires attached to me. She then lifted the bandage and looked at one of the wounds before shaking her head and reapplying it. Eventually she stopped and addressed everyone in the room."I know you are all happy to see him awake, but could. . it's a very good idea." She turned to Malcolm, "Why don't you show Sasha the room the other side of the bathroom from yours?"The bathroom, which had bath, shower, wash-basin, bidet and w/c, was shared between the two rooms. Malcolm had, for the most part, had it to himself as the master bedroom was en-suite. However, he could see there might be compensations to sharing it with Sasha. By her expression, she was having the same thought.The room had a three-quarter bed, made up with a flowery. “I’m getting blasé about this trip. I’m beginning to think that the travel agent was right. Two weeks is a long time.”Karen chuckled. “I’ve been thinking that, too. Looking at our journal, we’re sounding like a travelogue.”“Yeah, it makes our lives sound like fun but there is no excitement.”“Lover, that’s normal for most people most of the time. We’ve been lucky and I don’t want to push it.”“Karen, we have five more stops before we finally dock in Miami. What should we plan?”“Nothing special. Raju was dark so if Shara became pregnant then the child can very well be dark. This could be interesting since both of us are fair.Shara went to answer the door and I too followed her on tiptoe. I dared to leave the bedroom door I pushed it open an inch and observed out of it the action in the hallway.Shara was bent at waist to take the milk vessel and I could see the priceless expression in Fareed’s face as he too must have realized that my wife was wearing nothing beneath her pallu. I took.