<div class="floatleft">(https://i.imgur.com/avJO3Mn.jpg)</div>The engine of the Olympic purrs nicely as Gordon drives through the night streets of Berlin. After years of black-out driving the dark of Berlin's streets isn't too shocking. As he enters the core district there are street lights strung up, some official, some jury-rigged.<br/><br/>1125 Leipzig Strasse looks like a street full of shops, some boarded over, some just closed for the night. There's no sign of a marquee or lit sign, but Gordon watches couples slowly trickle in to a single recessed door. That must be<em>Kaffeehaus Maskerade</em>.<br/><br/>Approaching, Briggs sees there is  a sign posted on the wall, something you'd only see walking toward in from one direction.<br/><br/>The door is held open by a doorman. One eyed and one-armed, no doubt a veteran. The sounds of horns and drum beats can be heard from the stairs down below.<br/><br/>"Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome."  The man's voice is a growl, but it is possible the burn scars on half of his face are the cause.<br/><br/>The coat-check woman takes Gordon's hat and coat, and hands him a small domino mask. "Kaffeeregeln, Herr Fremder."<em>Cafe rules, Mr Stranger.</em><br/><br/>The stairs lead down, and it gets warmer and louder. The red walls are covered in posters, performance ads from before the war most likely. Micky und Schatzi. Das Orchestermanöver im Dunkeln, Das Samtkellerband. Gordon hasn't heard of any of them.<br/><br/>The room isn't that big. Along the near wall is a bar, the top two stock shelves have been replaced by framed photographs. The far wall is a stage just about big enough for the eight piece jazz ensemble. A drummer working the brushes, a double base, two trumpets, two saxophones, and two trombones, one of them the band leader. A jazz band made entirely of women shouldn't be that unusual, but... ...here it is.<br/><br/>Couples dance or sit around the small tables around the edge of the room. There are women wearing dresses, and some wearing suits. And the same is true of the men. As Gordon stands against the wall and scans slowly, he sees that about half of the dancing couples seem to be heterogeneous, and half homogeneous.<br/><br/>Everyone is wearing domino masks.<br/><br/>