The feet were huge: at least double the size one would expect on a similarly proportioned cat. The toes had claws that had to be six inches long. The ...fur was black from nose to the tip of the tail and stank like a cesspit.Fortunately for us, the cats were as surprised to see us as we were to see them. We had time to draw our swords and to take up our shields. The two cats jumped at us as soon as they got their wits about them. We three were all seasoned warriors, and so were our horses. The. Mason..." Sue." Well, all right... Sue." It's our pleasure," she said. She smiled warmly at him, and her eyes in the pale light were dancing with hot, sparking embers. "Would you like to take the guided tour now, Jack?" Yes," he replied. "Fine."The cabin had four rooms in addition to the huge main living room. There were two small bedrooms, each equipped with a large double bed and a dresser; a tiny kitchen with a stove and refrigerator; and a circumscribed sun porch with floor-to-ceiling. “Housing never crashes. The only safe investment is real estate. The key word is ‘real’. All this computing stock, none of it is real.”“You don’t know how true that is,” I said as I finished writing my instructions. “Everything will change in the new millennium.”“You are twenty-two years old,” he said. “I’ve never heard anyone your age talk about a future so far ahead.”“The future is as real to me as yesterday,” I sighed. “I think about it all the time.”I was thinking about the future a lot. After a week (of getting close to each other and talking late nights on phone and keeping in touch through sms on holidays), the teacher decided for a class arrangement reshuffle, but didn’t separate me and Ankita as we never disturbed anyone in the class, neither students, nor teachers (As we were busy with ourselves).Throughout the year, we restricted ourselves only to chats(sms), phone calls and meeting in school only.Starting of twelfth, there was a batch shuffle and we were placed in.