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.
When I arrived at the police station, dressed in my harem outfit, the only clothes I had, apart from attracting the stares of all the men, I found all the girls naked and handcuffed, surrounded by policemen who kept looking at them without knowing what to do. None of the girls spoke Arabic and none of the policemen spoke English, German or Spanish, so it was up to me to act as translator and communicate to the young women what awaited them.
"My name is Stephanie Carter and I am the First Wife of Emir Yussuf Al Dilial ib Ghazi al Kanaan and current Regent of the Emirate, you have entered an area forbidden to women, violated the curfew and also consumed alcohol, all of which condemns you to slavery according to the laws of the Emirate."
All the young women began to shout and protest, and several threw themselves on the policemen, being quickly reduced, finally one of them stepped forward and began to speak.
"I am Miriam MartΓ Serra, a student from Barcelona, we are all students at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and we just graduated, we came on a trip to Dubai, and there we were told to visit Kanaan. We were unaware of the Emirate's laws and we regret having broken them, but we are citizens of the European Union and they cannot enslave us."
"The slavery laws apply to any woman who sets foot in the Emirate, though that is not something I can decide;" I answered her. "But I can make sure nothing happens to you until the Emir returns and makes that decision."
"Take them to the palace and I don't want anyone to touch them;" I ordered the policemen.
For the next two weeks, the students resided in the palace without anyone disturbing them, during which time I met with them several times, especially Miriam to try to find out as much as possible about them, discovering that they had degrees in commerce, medicine, advertising, plus they all knew how to speak two, three or even four languages.
Obviously, this situation caused a tremendous diplomatic scandal, but at that time there was only one British consulate and the Emir cared little about what they thought in the West.
As soon as the Emir returned, I met with him and outlined what I had thought we should do with the girls.
"You could modify the sentences for slavery, as part of the opening up measures, remove the life slavery sentences, the few western slaves we have had, have been released within a few years by their owners and made their wives, reduce the sentences to between one and five years depending on the crime, let's employ those slaves in the new jobs, let's pay them money they can enjoy when they are free, there are six female teachers and four doctors among the tourists detained;" I commented to the Emir.
"It may be the missing step to make the opening and modernization you have put in place work."
To my surprise, my husband accepted my idea and amended the slavery laws, the tourists were sentenced to three years of slavery and bought by the government to employ them in positions commensurate with their training.
Unfortunately, it didn't work out as well as I had hoped, and I should have known what was going to happen. The main use of the slave girls in Kanaan, and especially of the western slave girls has been sexual, and my husband was clear about it, they were young and attractive girls and they were his slave girls, and he had no problem to fuck them when he felt like it, the same as the owners to whom we gave some of the slave girls did.