The Roaming Bird

"You remember that lady above our old apartment Patel?" Tanya asked without looking at me, she did that quite often, talk without making any eye contact. "Mrs Bose?" "Yeah, her soul left her body." "What? Did she die?" "Partially, her body is still here" "Tanya, you do realize that you're not making much sense, right?" Finally she turned to look at me, with an annoyed expression, as if I'm the one who's blabbering stupid stuff, "Soul don't just go away when you're 'dead-dead' Patel, sometimes it just get flushed away." "Why do you think that her soul left her body?" God just speaking that line makes me feel stupid. "I met her today, she was near my office, she was walking all alone, looking lost, I stopped to talk to her, but she just stared at me, with a blank expression, her eyes held no emotions, nothing, absolutely blank." Tanya turned again to look at the