Can’t you feel it too? Elena examined the strange box on the table more closely. Bhabhi They burned the painter’s clothes, and anything that wouldn’t burn they broke into many pieces and likewise deposited into a canal. The strange woman looked at her. Instead she kissed her way up the arm and, soon, across the rounded shoulder, pushing the strange, short-sleeved man’s shirt out of the way. “What’s happening? “No need to be concerned,” he said. Elena leaned over the railing to look at it. Her hand on the screen was lined in white flames, and smoke rose in curls from her arms and shoulders. She rang the silver bell to summon her servants. Two men arrived, both short, with dark complexions and wide mustaches, dressed in trousers, vests, and shirts with high collars. Elena reclined in the chair, letting the open fan dangle from




















