Not relishing the idea of walking around in the damn hospital gown, he went to the closet finding a set of scrubs. ‘Better than nothing,’ he thoug...t taking off the gown and pulling the scrubs on gingerly over his bandaged wounds. Outside he was confronted with one of Nigel’s men. ‘You shouldn’t be out of bed,’ the man, probably in his late 40’s, said to Michael. ‘Just looking to grab a quick smoke, anyplace I may be able to do that,’ he asked in a plaintive voice showing the man the pack of. "Oh nevermind, man, well I got invited in justnow but I saw you and figured it's best to help out," Kris said,flashing a clean white grin to me."Uhh, yeah thanks I suppose.... oh man where did they go?" dang it mymates left me in the lurch. Sighing heavily, I said "Say Kris, youwouldn't happen to know where this place is at? I live near UC Irvineand would need a way back to my apartment please." Kris looked at himwith a look of shock then responded "Uhh, well dude, the thing is ......we are on. “Enter the opening and follow the path down. Feel the texture of the walls and then you’ll come to the other side…” droned the monotonous voice of our shamanic teacher accompanied by the drumming. Dum-dum, dum-dum, dum-dum.I got up, already in a different state of consciousness, and walked through the opening between the sandstone legs. I was amazed as I touched the sides to discover it slippery and wet, just like my wet channel. When I got to the other side, the first thing that struck me was. He knew it was going to be tough to give up his life in London but that all seemed so far away and almost irrelevant now that he had found that, which has been missing the last couple of years. Tony saw the look in Paul’s eyes and they had a silent toast, both smiling. The farm became quiet and it was only the occasional barking of a dog down the valley that broke the peaceful silence. Paul was getting out of the shower when he heard a faint knock on the door. Wrapping a towel.