Letter 17

Hey Sec,

Felt nice to receive your mail after so long. My examinations have ended as well and so I can write to you elaborately about things happening on this side of the solar system (for I have realized sometime back that the World in not Enough).
From a very young age I have been fond of other worldly creatures. That explains my intimacy with most HST-ans. I was not quite shocked to read about Nike because whatever Cos says, fact remains, I am an expert on HST-ans and you can count on that. So I kind of guessed how Nike would turn out to be in the end, even when Cos was insisting that he is far saner than some other HST-ans and better looking that Rehan.
Rohan from HST-Fire has been consistently failing in his exams. He first fails in tests, then in retests and then in tests on retests. And I guess he has after all found a replacement for Pichku which also adds to his failure since no HST-an can ever be happy with a nice, sane girl- take it from me.
Meanwhile I have a wonderful tale to tell about the “kid” as you put it- Renoy from HST-space. In fact there is some foresight in his choice of the HST-Space over other HSTs, especially when ethnically he was more suited to HST-Water (albeit he also volunteers for don’t-take-bath movement.)
Renoy had found me from god knows where and I responded to him god knows why. However, he turned out to be an atheist and I a believer. That’s how it ends (or does it?).
Renoy looks like an amalgamation of a squirrel sans the furry coat and has instantly recognizable hollow cheeks. His junior at HST-Space, Argh tells me now that Renoy looks like every other HST-an of his species. The species we are talking of here is the species that lacks happiness- not literally but metaphorically. Of course you and I would not understand that but let’s leave it that way.
Renoy used to buzz me every other day asking about the daily weather and we also discussed things which vaguely sounded akin to a discipline of social science but now I relate it more with the Water cycle- for that’s the area of specialization of Renoy.
He spends his days, like Blake’s Thel, ruminating on impermanence of things. What he does not realize is that things are impermanent because people like him move around in the world making it imperfect.
He also uses a special sort of license to get through the world called ‘Lunatic license’. This license comes in handy in any situation where he has messed up and is basically waiting behind the bush to prowl on the latest soft target. To me he was quite nice in the beginning because at that time he was in a mood to bug someone and most of his conversations would eventually work around massive questions. These questions being massive did not have any relevance to our real situations, which I understood later. The questions ranged from “Why do human beings talk?” (He is no human though) to much more…
He is very fond of Xerox copies- as in when he gets something in the original, he isn’t satisfied. So he goes to the Xerox centre (that’s the only time he moves out of his room at HST) and gets the original thing Xeroxed for his perusal. He throws away the original after that. Also he likes to imagine things- he is in love with ghosts and hates those ghosts if they turn out to be congenial.
He has been to Greenland once and that is the high point of his otherwise bleak life. In Greenland he fancied a redhead who of course was nice to him but he had to mess it. He messed it wonderfully well and now he is looking for a blonde I suppose.
Anyways, more about him in the next mail. J

Cheers,
Tan

Letter 16

Hey Tan,

I am sitting to write to you after such a long time that it seems like ages. Though we had decided to keep contact through letters rather than talking for long on the phone and causing damage to our brain cells, something or the other always prevents us from doing so. Now these 2months, all three of us got so busy with the exams, term papers and stuff that we could not even manage to write letters. I hate exams! I hate exams! I hate exams! You must be thinking that i have gone crazy but seriously these exams make me go crazy and after a point i don't realize the point of giving exams which supposedly test everything that i have learnt in 4months within a span a 2hours. Anyways once i start exam-bashing, i wont stop and see how stupid i am, i still haven't even asked anything about u. So whats up with you girl and how is it going with the new kid on the block, the Renoy 'kid' you were talking about? You must give a full update on the scenario in your next letter. I will eagerly wait for the infos and you know how much I am interested in gossip. ;)

And you know Tan, i missed you so much. I had so much to say but couldn't find anyone around. I couldn't find Cos also and I don't know where she has disappeared these days. She also must be busy with her exams. But the last time I met her, she was telling me about Nike. You remember Nike right, the guy from HST-Air. Whatever Cos said, he did seem like a bit weird and the way he had left her in the middle of the road with the man in the green shirt in the vicinity with his "dekha jo tujhe yaar song" (though I find it quite funny sometimes) was unbelievable. But you know, Cos was saying that he had taken her for dinner to make up for what he had done and to say sorry. But there also he did something weird (how long can HST-ans resist themselves from doing weird stuff). He took Cos to a cafe and showed her the seat where he had sat at the time when he had broken up with his girlfriend. I don't know why he needed to do that but all that was fine. What he did after that was not at all expected, at least Cos did not expect that. Cos needed a book for a project she had to do and Nike had that book. Whatever the HST-ans do, they have quite a good collection of books (whether they buy it or steal it they know better ). But Nike kept making some excuse or the other and kept ignoring Cos' phone calls and did not even give the book. Cos had told him that she needed it for a project bu still he did not. I don't know what he was up to as Cos was saying that he had become quite a good friend of hers. But what else can we expect from the HST people. Their mind works differently from normal people, their brain is made of such complicated tissues and their thoughts are so complicated that if anyday someone sits to untangle them, he will go mad. :)

I have to go for dinner now...I will wait for your reply... Reply soon and take care girlie..

Lots of love

Sec