" Only an hour remember?" She encouraged.Following Cleo I was introduced to so many people. There were at least 25 milling about. Servers wondered wit... trays of drinks and finger food. Jake was making rounds greeting everyone, making his way towards us."Ah, the prettiest lasses about." Jake flattered us as he came up behind us. He lightly rested his arm around Cleo, his hand on her hip. "and how you be Misses Kat?" he asked with a gleam in his eye.I laughed. "I am delighted Jake. Again, I can't. I was married to an engineer working on the water supply in Tradagha and we lived on the edge of town. I don't know what happened to my husband but I was taken by some soldiers and I was ... I was..."The woman collapsed in a heap crying. As the overseer raised his whip the Emir signalled to the auctioneer."What is this slave's indenture number?" he asked."Alas, Master, not all the slaves in Tirfil were marked with numbers," said the auctioneer, suddenly frightened by the Emir's interest in this. . well.I bought one of those cheap 'pay as you go' mobile phones.I was going to anonymously text mum and see if I could have some fun. I sat down with my new phone, just fresh out of the wrapper, new SIM card inserted, and placed it on the charger. What would be my first text to her... "R U single?"I waited for a reply - what had I done? Texting mum in this way was crazy, if she found out, I was in real trouble... Maybe she wouldn't text back thinking it was one of those 'junk' texts that are. She winked back at him. When he got into the car he looked at himself in the rearview mirror. When he was done gawking at himself he sent her a text."All done." Perfect! Now here's the address to your next stop."The next text had an address in it. He was supposed to follow the same routine. He pulled up in front of his destination. It was a waxing place. He walked in the front door and the cute girl behind the desk looked up. She took one look at his hair and smiled."Oh. We've been expecting.