I could tell that there were a lot who had not tasted alcohol before. About two hours into the party, I was sitting by the table where food and drinks...were arranged. One of my juniors came up to me. He looked timid and shy.“Hello, ma’am”, said my junior timidly.“Hello, Vipin. Am I correct?” I replied cheerfully, with a glass of whiskey in my hand.“Yes… Yes ma’am”, he said under his breath.“Why do you look scared, Vipin? I don’t eat humans”, I jested. He cracked a slight smile.“Um… I haven’t. .."When the cab drops me off, I'm in a little cul de sac of thirties bungalows, with their identical front gardens and wrought iron gates. It's about 10.30 and from every living room comes the glow of a table lamp or the flicker of a TV set. Except one. The one I've been sent to.The lights on the ground floor are all off, and the only light is a faint glow from an upstairs room. I assume it's a bedroom, and the glow is an ultraviolet blue, as though someone's using a sunbed. When I reach the. .how things went with Jimmy last night?" What do you mean, Lisa, I broke a rule and I guess we worked it out without involving the folks, right?" I know, but I'm not sure I handled it right by getting Jimmy involved, I kind of feel like I should have found a better way." Lisa, Jimmy is a great guy. You are so lucky to have such a nice boyfriend and I think I'm lucky, as well, just to know him. So there is no problem. He was easy to talk to, just as you told me and he just naturally. Ambition and a hint of the future had gotten Mattos Stefane to where he was now, on the dais before the bent figure of Rizzo, staring at the blind eyes before him, blind though there seemed to be nothing wrong with them. "You cannot see anything of the near future," Mattos Stefane said, flatly."No, Your Eminence," Rizzo said, with a tone to his voice which Mattos Stefane found maddeningly serene.Closing his eyes, Mattos Stefane waited a moment. When he reopened them, he asked, simply, "Why.