Rich People Problems-Kwan 2017 (WWT)

Su Yi felt a hand on her shoulder, and suddenly she was no longer in that exquisite
temple in Ranakpur, and the priest with the bluish eyes was gone. She found herself
waking up in her bedroom at Tyersall Park, the morning sun glaring into her eyes.
“Mummy, are you awake? I’ve brought Bishop See to see you,” Victoria said chirpily.
Su Yi let out a low groan.
“I think she may be in pain,” Bishop See said.
Su Yi groaned again. This irritating daughter just interrupted me from one of the most
vivid moments in my life. Ah Jit was speaking to me, Ah Jit was trying to tell me
something, and now he’s gone.
“Let me call in the nurse,” Victoria said in a worried tone. “She’s pumped so full of
hydrocodone, she really shouldn’t be feeling anything. They said there might be
hallucinations, that’s all.”
“I’m not in pain, you just woke me up so suddenly,” Su Yi muttered in frustration.
“Well, Bishop See is here to say a prayer for you—”
“Please, some water…” Su Yi said, her throat as usual feeling so parched in the morning.
“Oh yes, water. Now, let me see. Bishop See, could you do me a favor and go into my
mother’s dressing room? There are some Venetian glasses on a tray beside her dressing
table, lovely handblown glasses with dolphin stems from a wonderful shop near the
Danieli. Just bring me one of those.”
“Aiyah, there’s a plastic cup right here.” Su Yi gestured to the bedside table.
“Oh, silly me, I didn’t see that. Ah, Bishop See, do you see a water carafe by that table
behind you? There should be an insulated silver carafe, with an art nouveau motif of
stephanotis flowers carved along the handle.”
“Just get me the goddamn cup,” Su Yi said.
“Oh dear, Mummy, language. Bishop See is in the room,” Victoria said, trying to hand
over the cup.
“Do you not see that my hands are tangled up in tubes? You need to help me sip the
water from the straw!” Su Yi said in frustration.
“Here, do allow me.” The bishop stepped in and took the cup from a frazzled Victoria.
“Thank you,” Su Yi said gratefully after she had taken a few precious sips.
“Now Mummy, Bishop See and I were speaking earlier over breakfast, and I was
reminded that you’ve never been baptized. The bishop has kindly brought with him a little
vessel of holy water from the River Jordan, and I’m wondering if we might do a ritual
baptism right here in this room.”
“No, I don’t want to be baptized,” Su Yi said flatly.
“But Mummy, do you not realize that until you are baptized, you can never enter the
kingdom of heaven?”
“How many times do I have to tell you I am not a Christian?”
“Don’t be silly, Mummy, of course you are. If you’re not a Christian, you won’t be able
to go to heaven. Don’t you want to be with Daddy…and all of us in the future that is