A high elbow cover drive. No, no. A straight drive. And if the ball is short, I shall cut it through the square or pull it through the mid-wicket area. It shall be my beginning. The grand debut. Arrival of a Champion. Amir kept perfecting this shot in his imaginary world, when his father interrupted him.
Suddenly, I felt as if she had grown in size. She seemed to occupy the entire room. I sensed that her presence was overpowering me. I began to suffocate. It became increasingly difficult to breathe. I tried to shout and raise an alarm but words were stifled in my mouth. I tried to break myself free. In the jostling, I managed to grab the paper-knife on the table and lunged at her. The knife sliced her in the middle and I felt down on the ground with a huge thud.