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‘Good morning Samantha.’ Ghost broadcast his feelings of contentment.
‘Good morning Ghost. Have you been waiting long?’
‘No Samantha. My time is my own. I can sleep anywhere for as long as I need. I followed you from the Star. However, as soon as I knew your intentions with Teddy, I left you to your timeout and attended to other business. I have been here for about 10 minutes.’
‘How did you get here? I didn’t see any cats in town.’
‘That because you don’t look up very often. Cats use the roofs across town; it is much safer than the roads. In this town, with lots of covered pedestrian areas and pedestrian bridges, it is relatively easy. The difficult bits are the climb up and the drop down. There are always windows open or air conditioning ducts not used. This lane has a very convenient cable duct where you will find our claw marks on the cables.’ Ghost seemed slightly frustrated that I didn’t know all this. ‘Your powers of observation are sadly underused.’
‘I am still pleased to see you, despite your brusque military manners. Come up to the apartment.’
‘Some have said worse; it was my training. There are many cats living in town. They get left behind when businesses go bust. I came to make you aware of their services. They are all free. Their reward is the little treats they get from time to time.’
Ghost ran up the stairs as I opened the outside door. He was ‘on point’ as befits his habit. He dived through the gap as I opened the door to my apartment. I opened all the doors to the rooms of the apartment so that he could complete his inspection. He looked in every corner including the En-suite. He jumped into an empty box in the kitchen that Jo had left behind. ‘Sorry ma’am. Old habits die hard.’ He eventually came to rest on the end of the sofa in the lounge. He was ready to talk.

“Marco. I noticed your portfolio in reception. You recently supported a major fashion show. Did you match the hair styles to the dresses?”
“Yes. Some dresses should be marked ‘size 8 and designed for pale skin and long blond hair’. Dresses are frequently designed for a particular model. As soon as you increase the bust size, the effect of the dress is destroyed. I have a range of wigs that I designed to go with certain dresses.”
“Have you noticed the new business ’MC-Enterprises’ next to Mademoiselle?”
“Yes, the ‘made to measure’ market is buoyant at the moment. Their website is very basic. It seems to be bras only at the moment. Marie-Claire said I should talk to you about its future.”
“Did she now? That is a bit premature. It stands to reason that the demand for made to measure dresses should be the same as for bras. We would hope to produce a small number of dresses in the very near future. Would you be interested in supporting a catwalk show?”
“I would be honoured.”

The girls had this nagging feeling that Angel was trying to talk to them.
“Julie, Jessica. Angel is trying to talk to you. She is using telepathy.” I paused for any comments, but the girls knew there was more to come. “You know telepathy is real; you were using it with the birds on project Eyeglass. You just need to switch to Angel’s telepathy frequency. Angel will be transmitting your name. You should go through the mental steps as a computer would do – activate telepathy, select listener bandwidth, listen on bandwidth. This will become second nature to you and probably something you will do as you awake each day.” I felt like I was a hypocrite. This was the way I thought it should be done, but I had cheated and used magic. I suspected they would cheat and use their tokens to help them.
“Auntie Samantha. What do you mean by bandwidth?” Jessica, as usual was a stickler for details.
“Telepathy bandwidths are many and varied. Each living thing has its own telepathy frequency; human beings are on one bandwidth and dogs are on another. The bandwidth is the group of telepathy frequencies used by a specific race, e.g. the human race. You could compare the idea to an FM radio where you know that Radio-1 is transmitted on a range frequencies. You listen on that range and then tune in on the local frequency that you find. Your listening methods on telepathy are the same.”
“I think I understand that. Please continue.”
“You will know when you have succeeded because you will hear Angel calling your name. It will be as clear as I am speaking to you now. What you should hear is ‘Angel calling Julie’. You should respond with ‘hello Angel’. It is a good idea to keep repeating ‘hello Angel, this is Julie’ because Angel will be trying to identify your transmission frequency; it might be one of many. Once you have identified each other, two things will happen automatically; first, angels transmit frequency will be noted in your memory; and second, a conversation will be started with Angel. The conversation will consist of a dedicated listener for Angel’s transmit frequency.”
“Sorry auntie, but we are not used to thinking in computer procedures. I think I understand, but we will have to practice.”