After several minutes in the dizzying black hole she was abruptly surrounded by light and people. She looked from face to face as they stared at her and she was sure they were waiting for her to bolt or freak out. They obviously weren’t from New York. New Yorkers don’t freak, they get pissed and then they get even. She took stock of the males in the room and instinctively took a step back, attempting to put as much space between them and herself. She didn’t trust men, not any, save one. She noticed that when she took the step back each of the men wrapped their arms around the respective women standing next to them, almost as if they understood that she feared them and they wanted her to know that she was of no interest to any of them.
“I’m going to go out on a limb here and say this isn’t
