I had to force my eyes away from the floor-to-ceiling window that the night sky shone a crimson red that was often blotted out by grey-black smoke. Ev...n the room began to take on the acrid smell of burning wood and sulphur.It was Frank who casually interrogated me on the events with scrawny colonel. I was eagerly anticipating divulging all first-hand accounts to the colonel himself and winning his gratitude for a mission well done. All I got was a wink from across the room when Frank pulled the. Zac commenced the meeting and introduced the owners group starting with Fred and ended with Petra, our Project Manager for the company and your first contact.Petra handed out 2 copies of the brief’s to each architect. “This is the brief. We have invited you 6 companies to look over the brief and come back to us with some building proposals. During the owners discussion I did draw up 5 ideas they came with. One is a favourite but we are not restricting you to these sketches.”Helena stated “We. She didn't say anymore until we were in the house. I could see she was still shaky. "You want some hot cocoa?"That finally brought a smile, "Yeah."I went to the kitchen to make the cocoa putting a little brandy in to settle both of us." Jess had taken off the dress and put of an old t-shirt of mine that served as a sleeping garment. I gave her the mug and we sat in the kitchen drinking and talking. She was still edgy after the mug so I said, "Jess, I can tell you are bothered. Please take this. Raju was my classmate till 7th and his father was servant in our family but more than that he was best friend of my father His father died when I was in middle school as family had no support Raju left school and went with his uncle to nearby village in search of his fortune later I didn’t had any contacts with him.as he was not successful there he came back to our village and joined as servant in our house anyways this I came to know later he greeted me with a smile and I also reciprocated and.