My wife was busy taking shower and all of sudden she screamed when she saw it. Her scream was very loud. Ranveer stopped taking bath to see who was sc...eaming. My wife screamed again. Ranveer correctly figured out that it was my wife. Ranveer ran out of washroom hurriedly covering his waist with towel. Ranveer already had master key for my flat so he directly rushed towards my flat. Water drops were falling on stairs from his body. He almost slipped but did not fall. He reached my flat and. Ava immediately fled the room without looking up. Deliah hesitated for a moment, her eyes on her husband across the table. Cayden laid her hand on her sister-in-law’s thigh and squeezed gently in assurance. The pressure broke the spell. Deliah stood and walked regally out of the room. Cayden and Hayden watched her go, an expression of appreciation on both of their faces. When she was gone and they turned back to their father, their eyes met briefly. They both understood what the other was. He did not remember steps in the City of the Gods.Yet he stumbled against another. And another. In a flash to his childhood, Wesley thought that he must be ascending the Northern Steps to the Temple of Aurora Borealis and the colors around him were the dancing Northern Lights. He stumbled and fell once more, caught up in the colors that surrounded him.He felt farther around him and found no wall. Smooth. Not even the small cracks between the closely set paving stones that should be there. Just. After we ate, we headed off to school to start another week.November, 1984, Chicago, IllinoisOn Thursday, a major cheating scandal at IIT was exposed. Kara brought home a copy of Tech News that discussed the issue. I hadn’t seen any of it, and had no hints that it was going on, but there were investigations into cheating on the mid-term exams in several departments, and according to Kara, the rumor was that cheating was rampant at IIT. I hoped that none of my friends were involved in any way,.