13 THE RUIN [As Kalki, I’ll provide a sigh of relief to the ailing mankind after tremors of World War III that would devastate mankind forever. After that war, there will be only the ruin in the world. There will be no county, no state or not city, only and only a dry wasteland will cover a major part of the earth as a cloak of destruction and the air will carry only sand and suffering that time.] “Are you hearing?” my father asks in a high voice, shattering divergent thoughts inside me, “are you?” “Yes,” I say, “what’s that?”