The Prince and the Journalist 6 - Questions and Answers
(Rose's point of view)
I have barely been in the mall for thirty seconds when I realize what Lady Stephanie meant with her words.
At first glance what I see inside the mall, is not very different from what I have seen before in the United States, Europe or shopping malls in Doha, Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur, dozens of tourists and foreign visitors, along with the elite of the Emirate being served by beautiful females employees dressed attractively and strikingly.
It is in these female sales clerks where I find the differences, in the malls of Doha, Abu Dhabi or Kuala Lumpur, most of the employees are of local origin, in this one practically all the female employees are of western origin, and most of them wear a slave necklace adorning their necks.
I observe the female sales clerks, their behavior seems no different from any female sales clerk I have seen before, they attend to the customers with a smile on their lips, without any gesture denoting discomfort or discomfort, a smile not unlike the one I have seen on the faces of Rina or Atiya as they attended to Bungami's cock and were fucked by the giant Nubian.
"I'm glad I got you right;" Lady Stephanie says to me, though I don't understand what she means.
(Lady Stephanie's point of view)
As soon as we enter the mall, Rose begins to look around, quickly focusing her gaze on the female sales clerks. She doesn't say anything but her gaze and the gesture of her body is enough of a sign to give me to understand that she has understood what I meant by my words before entering the mall.
"I'm glad I got it right with you;" I say placing myself next to her. "When I left the magazine with your story on Caleb's table I wasn't sure he would see it and be interested in it, but I had no doubt that if he saw it he would choose you to do the article."
"As soon as Caleb laid out the idea of the story and I started to draw up the list of possible candidates, your name was among the first, you are a journalist very different from the rest, IQ of 188, a seventeen year old graduate in Biology and Biomedicine, you could have gone to work for one of the top three companies in the industry with a contract close to seven figures, instead you decided to be a journalist."
"Besides, when you chose to be a journalist, you could have taken advantage of that smile and that body that God has given you and get any TV show you could have wanted, you could have chosen fashion reports, celebrity reports, but no, you had to be an investigative journalist and cover impossible and dangerous reports;" I comment to her, seeing her surprised face at my words.
"I see you have researched me thoroughly;" Rose replies to me, a little scared that I have discovered some things about her that I know most people ignore about.
"As you have done with us;" I reply. "Although what you've done in a week I've been doing for three months now, and despite everything I've discovered about you, I'm still finding surprises."
"What surprises?" she asks me without knowing what I mean.
"For example, if you are here it is not because you are really interested in the Emirate of Kanaan at all, if you are here it is because your last report about Senator Edwards and influence peddling in the Senate has earned you many important enemies, and you decided together with the editor of your newspaper Mr. Curtis, that here you would be safe and isolated for a while, am I wrong?"
Rose does not answer me, she has nothing to say to me, everything I have told her is correct, even the things that no one should know.
"The western slave girls are a fundamental part of the Emirate's economy;" I begin to explain to her. "Right now a part almost as important as the caltenium mine."
I notice how Rose is surprised at my words, returning to observe how those slave girls we are talking about behave, attending to customers with the usual smile on her face. She is so intent on watching the slave girls and my words, that she hasn't even noticed that I have told Nabila to take Yaiza away so we can talk quietly.
"When about twelve years ago, against the opinion of all the powers of the Emirate, my husband initiated reforms for openness and modernization, 50% of the men did not know how to read and write, rising to 90% in women, who also legally had fewer rights than any slave girl has now. I myself taught most of the Emir's daughters to read, only Nabila had received an education;" I commented, pausing for a moment before continuing.
"Being the first born, until the birth of Caleb, Nabila was the heir to the throne and was educated for it, when her brother was born, she was fourteen years old and my husband decided to maintain her education and send her to study in Turkey, Spain and England."
"Right now all the Emirate's minors up to the age of sixteen are in school, even the tribal girls who are still resisting reforms receive classes every day;" I pointed out. "Two years ago we opened the first university in the country, where 60% of the students are women."
"With these data that I am telling you, you can imagine the problems we faced when we decided to build the schools, the shopping centers, the hospitals, the office buildings, we had no qualified personnel to work with, neither male, much less female;" I expose. "The male staff, with the salaries we offered, was not difficult to get, the female staff was, no woman wanted to come to work in a place where a little carelessness could end up with a slave collar for the rest of her life."
"But what was the problem, at the same time was the solution;" I point out closing my eyes, trying to trigger the memory in my mind.
My husband was out of the country being treated for the cancer he had just been diagnosed with, which years later would kill him, and I was serving as Regent for the first time, a slave girl running the Emirate. Shortly before dawn, I received a call from the police, warning me that two dozen French, German and Spanish tourists had been arrested in violation of the curfew.
It was something that had never happened before, we had no female visitors, excluding the Emir's harem slave girls, acquired by order, there were barely half a hundred western slave girls in the Emirate, and most were tourists kidnapped in Egypt, Syria and other countries of the Sahara that came through the caravans to the oasis of 'The Desert Gate' where they were sold to the highest bidder.