Handing her an envelope, Ed said, “Thank you so much Mrs. Anderson for all of the help. I really appreciate it.”Marge said, “Any friend of John�...�s is a friend of mine.”Nodding, Ed said, “That makes you a very rich woman.”She smiled and said, “Thanks. I’ll see you tomorrow.”Ed asked, “You will?”“I’m going to the funeral.” After they had exchanged parting good wishes, Ed walked down the mall in search of the entrance he had used to get in the mall. Marge opened the envelope and saw the gift. Ippozhothu kathal athigamaaga irunthathu aanal moodu kuraivaagave irunthathu, anni pundaiyai sirithu neram suvaithen appozhuthu anni kaiyil vaithu iruntha dairy milkai eduthu aval kuthi meethu thadavinaal.Chocolate urugiya nilaiyil irunthathu, athai paathi varai anni pundaiyil thadava aarambithaal, anni pundaiyil irukum chocolate anaithaiyum naakal naki suvaika aarambithen.Anni thalaiyil kai vaithu kondu paduthu vital, nandraaga kuthiyai vaaiyai edukaamal sappi suvaika aarambithaal. Pundai neer. Ken's anxiety grew.He heard a rattling sound in front of him, like a chain-link gate clanking open. Someone sawed through the rope around his wrists and then roughly shoved him forwards. Ken lost his balance and went down to one knee. At least with his hands free he could finally tear this bloody hood off.Ken did that and looked around in time to see a wire-mesh cage door swing shut behind him. He heard the metallic clank as bolts were slid across. Behind the wire-mesh door dirty faces twisted. No slogans were painted in human blood on walls. No notes pinned to the corpses. Their office doors had been left open. I shuddered to think that I might have been the security guard assigned to protect their office building! A few photos had leaked to various blogs. They were not pretty.I looked up the names. Senator Vida Greentree was one of the four candidates for the office of President of the United States and the majority party candidate. She was favored to win by the news media. Two.