She passed me a foam cup with a bent straw and I sipped it greedily. I could feel the easing in my throat."Your doctor will be along shortly. He's pro...ably going to want to ask you some questions. I'm sure he can tell you what's going on," she said sweetly.If I had only heard her voice and not seen her, I would have pictured as a slim, lovely woman in her mid-twenties. Just the same, she might not have been a picture of loveliness but she was reassuring and professional and I could live with. Something was missing, that's what was wrong! "What am I missing?" Drew found himself thinking as he examined himself in the mirror. "What would Barb be wearing?"He felt momentarily foolish when he realized that he needed underwear. Not the white cotton briefs his mom bought him but the fancy, silky, colored underwear he'd seen in Barb's drawers. Drew had spent so much time going through Barb's dresser admiring her clothes that by then he knew his sister's drawers almost as well as she did.. They usedvegetable coal harvested from the growing forests, bone powder to producechalk and local iron ore as raw materials. Some of the obtained pig ironwas further processed to become cast iron. That was, I could see, by farthe most prolific economic activity I found up to that point in myjourney.Around this time we saw, distant in the north, the clouds and thethunderstorms of the storm belt. At that time of the year (winter) therain belt was safe, that is, it remained in the same position. Not the worst I’ve ever seen. I like a cheap place as long as it doesn’t seem dangerous. It can be nerve wracking seeing someone for the first time. Fear and paranoia of it being a set up can really invade your mind. I bit the bullet and knocked at her door and she opened up right away. She was much younger than me and she looked sexy so I was happy right away. We took care of the money immediately. I can’t say she was in a great mood, really she seemed a bit sour. I made small talk, trying to.