As Arun approached the Big P she saw him talking to a man who reminded of a lizard. She saw him slither away, when Big P in his patronizing fashion waved a dismissing hand at the lizard man. She walked up to the Professor, it took more than construction workers on sight to perturb Arun, and yet the strangest things would fluster, like a joke she couldn’t hear. "Siiiir" she drawled, " there are some men here who say they are going to build houses here”. “ Yes I see that Arundati, its ok I just spoke to the supervisor and he says that the houses will be only around the border of the site. At least this way we can recover any artifacts recovered for us, a bonus don’t you think?” “But sir”, she said “can’t we stop them?” “No we can’t, its all very political lets not get into this, now you go start doing your work, otherwise we will never get OUR job done” he said. Arun steadily walked back towards the others, much like The Tortoise, slow and steady.

“What did he say, what did he say” asked Priyanka.

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Melito felt the ground quiver under her body, this didn’t feel like a boat, she thought, in her disorientation she forgot that she had built herself a temporary shelter along with a few other people who had left the town. She also remembered all the dreams she had had before the forest fire had happened, her dreams in which she had seen that face- Baltos face. She had briefly seen it pass her window, but it all seemed unreal, why would she have seen someone who actually existed but she had never met in her dream. And what had the stranger been doing around their neighborhood. She had been born there and she new everyone who had lived there. But the dreams she had had a month before were very clear, she had seen fire, her family and friends in trouble, she had even dreamt that they had been attacked by the hunters of the forest. She had even gone to the Bhatkal, but he had been too busy performing the rain dance to appease the gods. They believed that too many bad things had happened of late, and this must be Pashwans way of showing his anger.