I don’t know what I expected—or if I really expected anything in particular—but I’m still surprised. The place is light, airy-looking—tans and off-whites. I guess you could describe the decor as "pseudo-African". There’s some strange kind of woven carpet on the floor, a deer pelt—or maybe it’s real antelope—on one wall, and a couple of brutal-looking short thrusting spears on another. Assegai, you’d probably call them. It sounds weird, I know, but none of it’s overdone or artificial. With the few people who ever come up here, the setup can’t possibly be for the purpose of impressing others. I suppose Blake must like it. I find myself wondering again about his background. He’s never pushed the Afro-American thing at all. He’s black, but so what? Since goblinization, skin pigmentation doesn’t mean as much as it used to. Does all this drek come from a single African country or is it some kind of pan-African hodgepodge? Got me hangin’, chummer.