‘We’ve lost this battle today, but not the war,’ she would proclaim to the reporters. And soon, when they did manage to capture their opponent, ...she would return with a smile. ‘We always stop the villain in the end.’ And just like that, their ‘temporary’ defeat would be forgotten. The public ate it all up. They wanted to believe that they were protected by an unstoppable team of superheroines. Megatropolis was rife with crime and brutality, and it could be a terrifying place to live without. Never before had I thought of going with a black girl mainly because in the town I grew up I never saw black people and anyway, I had been preoccupied with Aunty Betty for the past few years.Caprice and I got on really well, not least because she told me that I was the only person who had shown her some kindness since she arrived in my country, that hurt me to hear my fellow countrymen had been cruel to her and I told her so, She reacted by smiling at me and thanking me for being kind while. I let her in. She explained she needed 3 sets of shots of herself dressed in corporate attire. She had everything she needed in a couple of zippered covers on clothes hangers. She just needed shots of her standing and sitting in these clothes. I was to send my bill to her company and with that she handed me her business card. I agreed it was fairly straight forward and ushered her to the guest bedroom and showed her where the bathroom was. I then went to the garage to make sure everything. "As he led them through the door at the far end of the stateroom he said, "The Admiral has eight rooms. His dayroom, a study, a bedroom, four women's bedrooms and a common room for the wives and concubines." No bathroom?" asked Tamsin."Each bedroom has an attached bathroom, Highness."Tamsin and Janice looked at each other."I suggest, Highness, that you wait in the common room until the Admiral decides which bedroom is assigned to whom. Are there many more concubines to come?" There are no.