Our first lesson took place in a room near the garage and the gym. Vanessa had neglected to show me this room on the tour of the house. It was a vast space with limited pieces of furniture.
A floor-to-ceiling mirror covered one of the four walls of the room. A four-seater table rested in one corner. A few large books and a folder sat on its surface. The rest of the room was bare.
"Okay," Vanessa announced, sitting in one of the chairs. "The first thing you'll need to learn is how to establish yourself as one of us. Rich knows rich. It's a simple technique. We pick out a person in the crowd by the way they walk and the clothes they wear. You already have the wardrobe, but you have to learn how to maintain it without getting help from anyone else. I've seen you walk, it's not too bad, bu
