"I remember the first time I saw you I thought I'd never seen a more beautiful girl. Your hair was gleaming chestnut in the sunlight and it curled sli...htly, framing your face perfectly before tumbling in waves down your back. I think I fell in love with you then."Gazing into the mirror it's as if the reflection flickers slightly, her hair becoming less grey, developing a glossy sheen. Impossible she knows, especially under these harsh lights, but it's almost as if she were standing in the. .Elopu uncle karchesadu….Na modda matram gattiga roddu laga aunty pooku meda dance adutunte aunty thattukoleka….Lanja kodaka ee lanja nedera deni pookuni champai ra ani pachi boothulu matladutundi….Nenu enka kuda aunty pookulo na modda pettakunda pooremmala meda chinnaga rudduthu….Em kavali lanja ani aunty ni adigithe ne modda kavali na ranku moguda ani pichiga matladutundi……Aunty ne enka na modda pattukoni kuthalo dopukundi…..Nenu chinnaga toyagane motham modda lopaliki vellagane aunty. There is a significance in what they are, and they carry with them ties into the power of the forest and the snow. These are two things you seem intent on making a part of yourself, so for that reason alone, they are important to you." And so, being important to me, I must bind them or destroy them?" Or ignore them, but that is the fool's choice."Fool's choice indeed. I considered my choices in silence for a while. When the silence had begun to grow too comfortable, I chabged the. He had heard about projects involving 'rail guns' designed to launch satellites. These were electromagnetic tubes capable of generating immense speed. This was surely one of them. The tremendous noise of each launch had not been explosive power but the sonic boom as the pods left the tower at maybe twenty times the speed of sound.He felt the shadow of an armoured bug over him. He turned to see its claws and tentacles reaching out to envelope him. His leg was almost paralyzed and he didn't.