The Fire and the Rose: Part 3
Part 2 is HERE
The story starts HERE
Jeff got a room in slumland hotel inexplicably named the Blue Bird Troupe and slept the sleep of the outrageously intoxicated until sunlight and a screaming prostitute roused him awake. He was close to rested and closer to sober, both of which were better than being dead cold in the Puget Sound, he supposed.