In an ideal world we would have taken ourselves to some retail mega-hub and hit the shops, but neither of us had the disposable income forthat kind of...experience. However, one of the many advantages in livingin genteel middle-England is that the charity shops were well stockedwith very nice clothes at very thrifty prices.Besides which, we only had our Thursday lunch break, I think we didwell to find her a neat, mid-grey pencil skirt for work and somethingI decided would be just the thing for a. She asked (antha maari padamna ??!!!) that kind of film means??. I told her adult movie. Suganthi got very angry and scold me and she said that she will complain to my mom.I acted like innocent and start crying suganthi (naan epavm paaka matn. Appa amma vera vtla illa athan free ya paaka aasa patn. Unna enaku rmba pidikum ethayum unta marachathu illa athan apdi sonnen. Naan ethuvm pakala naan thungrn.) I dont watch these movies often. Mom and dad are not in the home. So I that of watching the. Are you prepared to pay theprice?" Mom felt chills down her back, as if she were about to commitherself irrevocably to some form of damnation. ******************************The ritual was held that very night, deep in the darkest forest. Brightin the sky, shone a waxing gibeous moon that lit up the clearing. Momsat on a blanket at the edge of the clearing, and watched thepreparations.Ellen warned Mom, "It's important that you maintain silence, and notdistract any of us. They seldom expended more than one single shot to kill a buffalo at great distances. A young Bat Masterson of law enforcement fame was one of the defenders at the post.Strangely, it was a single long distance shot by a buffalo hunter called Billy Dixon that ended the siege with the Indians losing heart and returning to their camps with stories of their bravery. The shot made by young Mister Dixon was with a Sharps .50 caliber rifle at a distance of a mile and killed a Chief's son with a bullet.