The night was bathed in a warm darkness and moonlight, the city stood bejewelled in against the black the lights twinkled in the reflection scattered across the sea, even though late and dawn only several hours away the city still had some beats of life going on in the streets, Marcus was stood at the bar of the office party which was at the Ocean View a club which was atop one of the many high-rise buildings here you could see the ocean and the whole city, Marcus hated these office parties the boss always said it helped with team building but it was an excuse for the people he didn’t like to get drunk and become the focus of water cooler gossip the next day, he took his drink and made his way through the dancing crowd of binge drinking and future regret and opened the sliding door and made his way onto the balcony closing the door behind him to help drown out the noise, he raised a glass to himself and toasted “To another great night” he gulped hard at the whiskey which burned his t