Such signs graced so many of the shops in downtown Manhattan. And, indeed, even some shops and hotels in Harlem didn't welcome people of colour. Tizzy... sniffed, but this was the way of the world. It had been like that all her life. And it would probably be like that forever. Leastways, she wasn't no slave. Thank the Merciful Lord for progress!The wallpaper in the hotel was peeling, torn and stained yellow and brown by decades of tobacco smoking and from the flickering flame of the gaslights. The. That night we were both really giddy and frisky so we went to bed early whilst she was in the bathroom I messaged her asking for a photo of what I was soon to be touching, and almost instantly one arrived, wow it was her in the mirror taken from the chin down to her belly one hand cupping one boob the other holding the camera, I instantly sent it to him, a reply of mmm get one of her arse, was the from him so he was there and near his phone, MrsC walked into the bedroom and noticed I was. Apparently convinced that this exercise would lose weight and give her muscle tone. My initial thought was if she lost 3 stone it still would not show. However she was happy.I showered as the sign told me before entering the pool, and then adjusting my goggles I stood at the edge of the pool and got ready to swim. Up and down I swam whilst counting lengths, 1,2,3, etc.Length after length I tick off the numbers 73 74 75 , the end way still 40 lengths away and the heart was pumping, the muscles. This was the signal for Tirus and three other Loegrians with us to open up with the self-activating Null darts they’d been supplied with.The Vultoqi reaction was immediate as several scans washed over us, at least one detecting our position as we hoped.“Here they come,” Róisín murmured.“100 metres and give them hell as they won’t be able to get out of the trapped zone at that stage,” I ordered.There were no replies, but, from the mental state of the squad, I knew they’d heard me. The Vultoqi.