"Uhhhhh...." I began to panic. "I'm really tire-" Julie cut me off."I was thinking I would stay in the guest room, if that’s alright with you" Thank...god she saved me on that one I thought as my aunt looked over and winked."Oh thats an even better idea" my mother replied as she turned and left the room.I said goodnight to Julie and the few other family members that were still around, it was nearing 2:00 in the morning now so there were few people left. Retreating to my room, overwhelmed with. We get all too many that are just too mangled to repair." He said that like he was fixing a flat tire on my car.The clerk at battalion HQ stopped by to give me some of the stuff I'd left in my locker."I had to guess what you might want; the rest of it I shipped to your permanent mailing address."I thanked him, and asked, "Do you know what happened? I remember feeling something pulling against my boot ... then I was here." Yeah, the VC place grenades along likely paths across or along streams.. And till the next day evening i was the same, but suddenly i receieved call from my mom. I started shouting at her that y dint u call me yesterday?? She told me that she had some work, that’s y she was not able to call.. Then i told her that what happened to me last night, i told her that i did not sleep for the whole night, i told her that i was mentally disturbed bcoz of ur phone call. By hearing this mom started laughing loudly in the phone and said it happenes for all ppl not only u.. So. Naked, I lowered myself into the water, it felt soft and cleansing. I swam back and forth across the short pool for a while, then hauled myself onto the rock again and closed my eyes. I woke to find my divine retreat bathed in a strange misty haze, the surface of the water shone in a way it hadn’t done before. The little wavelets on the surface sparkled like diamonds and rubies and emeralds as the broke against the edges of the pool. Close by two figures stood watching me, their cloaks almost.