That night I jerked off to her tantalizing image. I could hardly wait to see her again. The following day I kept my eye appointment and waited for her... in the cafeteria. She was as punctual as she was sensual. I waved to her after she’d gotten her cappuccino and she slid onto a chair opposite me, gliding butt-first onto the plastic seat in that ultra-feminine way that brings to mind a dainty bird lowering itself onto a nest. ‘Your eyes okay?’ she asked, looking into them. ‘Slight astigmatism,’. ” He gives me a searching look so I move slowly when I reach into my pocket to get the letter I was given to hand him. He opens it and reads it.Smiling, he waves me to sit down as he pulls up a chair. In a flash all of the tension in the room vanishes when he sits down. He speaks better English than I do Spanish so we talk in English. He tells me about a ranch outside of town where a large group of gringos are training in basic military manoeuvres and the men from the ranch beat up Mexicans and. You can play cards and we can get ready to go. Did we decide on a place?”“Let’s start in Rome and if we don’t like it, we can find someplace else to visit. You can pick the year. I hear Caligula threw some outrageous parties but he was also prone to killing people for no reason so we may want to go for door number two.”“I think we should get a car so we can get around and not draw so much attention with cabs. If we are going to be buying a lot of stuff, we can go to grocery stores and Costco. He was so hungry that the flight attendant served him two additional trays. The flight lasted ten hours, and he had little urge to sleep. Instead he stared out the small window as the pink sun hovered over scattered clouds. The drone of the plane’s engines eventually put him to sleep for a few hours, and by the time he awoke he was approaching New York City. He filled out several forms, basic information, passport and visa numbers, where he would be staying, and whether he carried any.