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After finishing breakfast in the restaurant, Blake stopped by the hotel bar to order a drink while sitting at one of its many comfortable leather chairs near the fireplace. He sat there quietly sipping his brandy for a long time with his eyes focused intently on the flames burning brightly behind the glass wall...until a group of five attractive young women approached him and asked if they could join him at the table. Since they were obviously tourists and seemed friendly enough, Blake smiled pleasantly and agreed to share their table. He didn't recognize any of them or their names...and he didn't want any of them to sit next to him or touch him while they talked to him. But none of them wanted to leave until they'd shared their travel plans and asked him a series of harmless questions that didn't require answers anyway.