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"Sorry, but my dealer likes to be private", the most blatant lie you told today. If you could count your buddy being here in front of us. He would have a heart attack seeing you not spreading the word around about him.
"Fine by me. Keep your secrets to you, mysterious man", she giggles. "Since Grace isn't hearing us...", she gets her phone again and tap real fast something. You hear feel a ping on yours, "Here's the address on were I teach. It's an old building, but the owner likes that way. She says some traditional values must be maintained."
You know where she teaches, but how did she has your number? You look at James while he was too distracted devouring his second burger. You can see already some sauce stains on his shirt, pants and jacket. What a messy eater. Between all of them, only that Lamar dude - who I may say didn't say a word all night besides a laid-back "hi" to you - seems to eat slowly, enjoying his food bit by bit.
"Thanks"
"You okay?"
"Yeah. Just disassociate for a moment."
"Wanna take fresh air?"
"Nah. I'm fine", you lock eyes with her. Her worried amber eyes turns to a more relaxed, getting back to focus on you. "About the owner, you said it's a woman?"
"Native american woman, to be more precise. Anna has some interesting story: She worked as assistant district attorney and suddenly had some higher calling revelation. Since then, she delve into her own native heritage and culture. That place, the 'Fanum', is the work of her life. Well... Not 'hers'. The Fanum exists for a long, long time."
"You meant in a sense she dedicated her life to the Fanum?"
"Yes! Exactly that!", she says that a bit too loud. Another strike of good luck, none looked at you at all. She lowers her voice again. "Oops..."
And you laugh, "I bet as a former attorney, she got lots of contacts. You said the whole thing on CU. If she hadn't have those contacts, it would be impossible for you to do that lecture, right?"
Kimberly nods, "Her influence is big to the point she helped other communities like hers to stabilish here in Chicago. If you around the Fanum, you'll see another beautiful building with some religious motifs inside", she drinks more beer to help going down her burger, "Orthodox Temple of Akhenaton, the name. They do a whole egyptian religion culture inside. I'm so in love with their work! Ressurecting old faiths destroyed by the sands of time is one of most difficult works regarding identity restoration and application to nowaday's society", you feel a heartbeat skip inside her chest. She closes her eyes and takes a deep breath. Kimberly was real happy.
And you are getting closer and closer...
>"beautiful building? Who's the architect?"
>"the fanum seems pretty heterogeneous for a native being in charge"
>"I bet both places got a good friendship going on"
