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"Was it white?" someone else chimes in

"Not really white…" I say

"Was it a kind of shiny blue green?" co at ht-faced

"I don’t renity "The color wasn’t important"

"Did it feel like…" Luke appears to think hard "Like the links of a chain were pulling you along?"

"That’s a very good ie, Luke," chimes in Chandra, pleased

"No," I say shortly "It didn’t Actually, I think you probably have to have a higher appreciation of spiritual ravely

"Luke, you must be very proud" Chandra bea you have ever seen your wife do?"

There’s a beat of silence Luke looks froroup and back to Chandra’s bea face

"Chandra," he says "Take it fro"

After the class is finished everyone heads to the terrace, where cool drinks are waiting on a tray But I stay on s I’ and half i while they applaud ads, O Spiritual One," says Luke, and I open lass of juice

"You’re just jealous because you don’t have a beautiful inner being," I retort, and casually smooth back my hair so the red dot painted on rees Luke "Have a drink"

He sits down beside lass I take a sip of delicious, ice-cold passion-fruit juice and we both look out over the hills toward the distant horizon

"You know, I could really live in Sri Lanka," I say with a sigh "It’s perfect The weather… the scenery… all the people are so friendly…"