. . be human.” Nate could be a real friend. Maybe I had been underestimating him lately. “Besides,” he finished, “you never know who you’l... find.” “Okay,” I sighed gratefully, “I’ll go.” “Meet me outside the Fourth Street Club at six-thirty, before the line gets long,” he said. “You can get yourself there — your subway pass is still good, right?” “’Til the end of the month,” I replied. “Maybe it’s time to consider being roommates again,” he suggested. “I got space at my apartment.” “I. “Leaving already?” she asked?“Well, this seems like a bad place to be alone” I said.“Yeah, but your not alone anymore” she replied.I smiled at her and introduced myself. She said that her name was Sunny and it turned out that the party was at her house. Apparently she was a little bit of a wild child, and threw huge parties whenever her parents went away. Sunny told me to wait a minute and ran back upstairs. I could hear people yelling her name and cheering her on. Clearly she was very. Eventually she lifted her gaze from the floor, and completely changed tack of her monologue.“Venezia maintains trade links with the Turks, but of course Austria does not. However, Austrians crave many of the commodities which come from the Ottoman Empire. A compromise was reached between Venezia and Austria, where any merchandise brought from Turks is shipped into Venezia by our vessels, and then off loaded onto Austrian vessels bound for Trieste.”She gazed back down at the floor and spoke. I expected a bollocking, for wanking, but all I got was a smile and a "don't worry".The rest of the day was perfectly normal, or what passes for normal in our house. It was the start of the summer school holidays, so there wasn't any homework. Dad had muttered something about getting a job, but you can't just find a job these days, like he could when he was my age. Danni and Rachel were in their room. They spoke in low voices, so I couldn't hear them, even when I pressed my ear against their.