All of which explained why she couldn’t help but stop, that warm summer day as she biked through the forest. It wasn’t that it was so unusual to s...ee someone sitting by the side of the bike path, although you didn’t get many people this deep in the trails. It wasn’t that the person she saw appeared to be a little girl, sitting under a tree with her knees drawn almost all the way up to her chin, staring intensely at Cat as she approached. It was that the girl had a box balanced on her knees, an. I tried to get up slowly and got up and am struggling to walk. Suddenly I fell on the floor and screamed. Both Raj and Balu woke up from sleep due to my scream and saw me on the floor.Balu came and lifted me and asked why I got up. I said to go to bathroom. So Balu took me to bathroom and I washed my face and got a bit refreshed. By that moment it was 3:30 in the afternoon. We had our lunch and after lunch we relaxed by staying nude. I said to both the guys to drop me in my hostel. Raj said we. We pumped out all the water into the drainage ditch at the bottom of the garden. Nothing but green slime.”“Hello Father,” interrupted a voice I recognised. It was the spokesman from the pub.“Hello. What are you doing here?”“I’m the foreman and this is my crew. I’ll be operating the digger. One of my lads is about to break up the concrete with a pneumatic drill. It’s going to get very noisy so you’d better go inside.”“Okay. Thanks. I know we met in the pub but I don’t know your name.”“Dennis. This was a punishment beating, wasnt it? She nodded. What are you involved in? he asked, touching an unmarked spot under her bellybutton with one finger, as if he wanted to reassure them both that her body would heal. I cant tell you, she whispered. Is it drugs? he asked, brusquely. There were no needle marks on her arms, and though she was too thin, her skin wasnt the sallow colour of a user. Nothing like that, she said, and for a moment she rested her hand on his head, her fingers.