Chapter 20

CHAPTER 20

THE BLACK SUN

When they got off the train at the Paderborn station they had already seen from the window Lakshmi´s slender silhouette among the few people who were waiting for their relatives. A little further they spotted Ingo, who had grown a chin beard. Hugs and kisses between the two women were endless, punctuated with disjointed sentences inquiring about what had happened within the period of slightly over a year when they had not met. In a moment Nancy gently rubbed the belly of the Indian woman and asked.

“Is this what I think it is?”

“Yes. I have a three months pregnancy. All this is a little embarrassing to me.”

“Why, if it is the most natural fact of the world?”

“But it does not fit with my own view of myself. You know, the action, the FBI and all that.”

“Ridiculous. Or for FBI women it is forbidden to become mothers?”

“And what about you? What are you waiting for?”

“Not yet, we are still...”