Odyssey

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“Ouch! Damn!” Sovereign James muttered when he bumped into the unexpected second door to the entrance of the East 86th Street address. It was his first appointment with Dr. Seth Offeran at the building on the north side of the block between Madison and 5th.

“Let me get that for you, sir,” a man said.

Hearing the voice a host of assumptions and physical bearings leapt to Sovereign’s mind.

The speaker was young, probably white, and he worked for the building, most likely a doorman. Sovereign was also pretty sure that the young white man was not in the vestibule. The voice sounded like it came from another room, through a window or something like that.

He heard the click and slide of a lock and the young man, whose voice had come from the left, was now before him saying, “Come on through, sir.”

James took three steps, enough to cross the second threshold and clear the arc of the door in case it opened inward.

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