I just need some quick cash." Planning on fleeing town, are ya?" No. Not just yet. I have other plans."He covered the phone and said something to his ...om."Well I can get the car. Am I just picking you up at this guy's place?" Yup."I gave him the address and he met me down there. The guy took it for a spin and was genuinely impressed with it. He even gave me $3000 instead of $2500. I was surprised. I was expecting him to try and shaft me. Maybe $3000 was still less than what the thing was. 'Poor fellow' Arti remarked, 'he will be dead to the world till morning'.'Don't count on it' Razia laughed looking towards the far end of the room. I followed her glance and saw Mary lighting a small lamp under a bowl of oil. I wondered who is the lucky fellow to get the massage tonight. Mary looked enquiringly at Razia.'No Mary wait till we have finished dinner' Razia said, 'we want to watch'. Mary nodded. Half an hour later when we finished dinner Razia said, 'come guys let us go to my room.. He continued playing for a while until their lesson was done. An hour of playing increasingly complex music, until eventually he couldn’t keep up. And only after he failed to play a piece a few dozen times did she consider the lesson done.“Is it this hard for kine?” he said between clenched teeth. “Feels like I’m trying to ... to carve into a piece of metal, with a knife.”“Neuroplasticity. The ability for your mind to adapt to new organization. Learning to play an instrument is easy for kine. She held her breath, waiting for his response. Jesse Turner had finished his phone call with Van as quickly as possible. Van had known for several weeks that Cassidy was special to Jesse. When Jesse had finally broke down and told him how much he liked her, Van had laughed in the big man’s face. Van had said, ‘I never took Jesse Turner to be a coward. If you want her, go get her!’ That had been all it had taken to convince Jesse that he had a chance with Cassidy. He had never met a woman like.