The unseen and the unknown interface with the seen and the known all the time. Second Robin and its first part, Death of a Robin, are evidence of this fact because these are true stories. The events in the novels began in 1984 in a real place called Constantia, somewhere in India, which engulfed the lives of real people.... He retreated into the shade of the prehistoric imli tees. Time lingered longer on their bark and in their secret hollows, day disappeared and changed into the costumes of dusk. Dewy traps of moonlight dripped into the misty eyes of the creatures of darkness and washed away the indolent dirt of the day from their brows and they played out games of the decoy perils of night's many webs. He took a tour of the long coast of the night and sat down beside the river. And interpreted each eyeful jewel of the deep sky.