I’m supposed to – ““Shh. It’s fine, Cassie. I can manage without sex. I wanted to see you, but I’m not going to - ”“That wouldn’t be...fair, Geoff - you’ve paid for me!”I told him one of the girls had died recently, and Katrina and I had shared a room with her so we were upset. Geoff sympathised and said he was sure the owners were saddened and had taken care to return the girl’s body to her family, but he was surprised her friends and especially her room-mates were expected to work so soon after. .”“The Hindu goddess,” she said, her English impeccable, with an accent a mix of Chinese and British. “My parents had a sense of humor.”She added sausages or bangers to his plate. He enjoyed his most occidental breakfast. “What are your plans?” she asked.“Perhaps some time on the beach?” Joe suggested.“You will need some protection,” she told him. “The sun can be intense.”“Of course. Your husband?”“On one of his business trips,” she sighed. “Probably fucking his secretary. Or one of the whores. I woke up with bleary eyes and went to rub them, though I couldn't, it felt as though my body was enveloped with a jelly like substance. I remembered the what had happened before and just rested, waiting for the time I would be reborn into the world. What must've been hours passed and suddenly I could feel my entire form being pushed down a large tunnel. This is it, I thought, this is my rebirth! No more than a minute later and I was on a floor and the jelly was dissolving around me.“Welcome. Like most guitarists, I like to improvise and have written a lot of my own stuff, some good and I suppose some not so good. I’d been playing quietly for sometime when I sensed someone was close by but just out of my peripheral vision. I turned around to find a young woman casually leaning against a nearby piano watching me. ‘Sorry, I didn’t realise anyone was there.’ I mumbled apologetically. ‘Am I in your way?’ She smiled, ‘Not at all, I was drawn down here by your playing. What was it you.