Apart from the subject matter, she seemed unable to get beyond fragments of things: a few pages of a story, perhaps a few more, before she was startin... something new entirely. Another condition of the Black Box, the incapacity to sustain an idea. Not all the fragments she sent him were some variation on the unhappy woman, the unloving husband, the inescapable lockdown of life choices. One involved a middle-aged man whose formerly happy life and career had collapsed from an indiscretion with a. So she was quite happy to be exposing slightly her new endowment without being outright embarrassing with the kids coming around. As the night progressed and the drinks were flowing, it was amazing we had gone through two gallons of Bloody Mary’s so quickly. J-Nine and I went to the kitchen to make up another batch, a bit larger this time while M greeted our young candy grabbers and invited the parents to our party. J-Nine poured the two bottles of vodka into the cauldron as I was pouring the. With trembling fingers, she tore open the top of the feed bag and bent down to hurriedly scoop out a large portion of the rich meal into his food tray. Steeling herself, she resisted the impulse to look back at the dog, and by the time she had filled the tray, she knew that Wolf had obeyed her and remained inside his shelter. Her feeling of apprehension gradually faded to relief as she realized that what she had seen was not really so extraordinary. After all, there were several young bitches. This is like the Geisha used to be, just no real training. Salarymen often go to places like this, often as part of business meetings. As I said, it is like a casual date. Now in some places they do more than talk and flirt a little. But I knew this was a good place, I had been here before. And without somebody like me you would never get in, Americans are largely not welcome without a local like me with them.”Deb admitted it had been fun, and it was to bad there was nothing like that for us..