At certain times of the day, she feels light headed. She has to sit down: either on the grass, or on the pebbled pavement. When they get back to the house so she can get ready for the second wedding in her extended family, she has to take five minutes of sitting on the carpeted floor and close her eyes and steady the whirring energy at the back of her head. She wonders why. Then realises that perhaps it's concussion. The skin at the base of her skull must have split at the first contact of the ceramic. The pain was instantaneous, unbearable. She heard him slam the front door shut as he left the house in disgust. Her friend was right. If she couldn't come up with another strategy to make him be quiet and get away from her, she would groove in this pattern - again. Repelling a menacing, verbal attack from the old, familiar, paternal, ancestral, unaware, threatening masculine energy with a physical attack on the self... because she deserved it. She sc...