CHAPTER SEVEN
It was a very quiet dinner time. At first, the aunts were obnoxious about what had happened to Vipin, but when Paa said that the man was a government agent, not a drug dealer, they got very quiet.
Rina kind of wished Paa hadn’t gone there, even if it did hurt to hear the aunts badmouthing Vipin.
After dinner, Rina felt tired and depressed and went to bed early.
She dreamed of Vipin again, but she herself did not seem to be in the dream.
Her dream-self in this dream was nothing more than a disembodied spirit. She drifted through a hospital, looking in on the sick and the maimed. She had done some volunteer work that had taken her to places like this, and it always upset her to see people suffering, dying.
She drifted into one particular room with only one patient lying o
