---- behind Ben.


    Praying.


    Please.


    Please.


    Ben looks back at me to wink.


    Calm down Robin.


    Ten seconds are still left.


    Phew.


    Saved.


    I let out a deep sigh and thank him.


    He turns in front and I watch Damien beginning with today''s session We will continue from where we leftst time.


    Blindfolds on.


    Gosh I hate this the most.


    This imaginary partner of mine is keeping me on my toes Scout would be leading you today.


    I have somewhere to be.


    Damien announced and all the anxiousness left my body.


    I don''t know why I was relieved.


    I will be safe ---- eee from his prying eyes.


    Scout begins but I couldn''t hear any footsteps walking away.


    I must have missed it.


    First task, Damien barked, his boots crunching on the ground Find your partner.


    No speaking, no signals.


    You''ll rely solely on sound and feel.


    Move! My heart raced as I stretched out my arms, groping through the cool, thick air.


    My hands brushed nothing but empty space, my ears straining for any clue.


    I inched forward, feeling my senses sharpen in the darkness.


    Just then, I heard the faintest intake of breath and reached toward it instinctively, my hand grazing an arm.


    Was this my partner? Tow would I even know, but I am sure he will be able to identify me.


    The person holds my shoulders as if to judge my size and then I hear his footsteps walking away.


    ---- Okay.


    After few minutes I feel another person approaching me.


    This one touches my hand and arms.


    And then retreats: It was strange.


    How everyone was using different limbs to identify their partner.


    And then there is my partner.


    He is audacious.


    I must admit.


    He touches my face.


    Tracing every inch of it, not even bothered feeling my lips I feel another persone.


    I feel fingers touching my mask, trying to identify me.


    Hope fills my chest.


    But then before those fingers could trace lower to my lips.


    T feel an arm wrap around my waist, pulling me flush to a hard chest.


    I gasp.


    ---- eee = Hot breath fans behind my ear.


    And I instinctively knew.


    He was the one.


    The one holding me was my partner.


    Lsee you found me.


    Imurmured softly, keeping my voice low but he heard me, yet he says nothing to acknowledge me.


    I thought I would instigate him to speak and be able to guess who he is from his voice.


    But he was clever.


    He doesn''t want to be known or found.


    Tam sure he knows my identity.


    No one here wears a mask except me.


    But I know nothing about him.


    Te didn''t even let me trace his face.


    As if afraid, I will identify him.


    Now that you''ve found your partner, Scouts voice echoes your job is to dodge.


    Move with every breath and