But it seems she upset my boss big time and she took it upon herself to destroy this woman’s reputation and pulled out all the stops to the point of...telling people that this woman had bitched about them. Before long everyone hated her and I confess, at that time as I knew no better, was very wary of her myself until I spoke to her on many occasions after and she seemed pretty cool, wacky, but cool just the same. The next victim was a Russian colleague, but luckily for her she was reprieved for. She got off me, pulled on what she could and headed out of the room, practically skipping as she left the room. I got up off the bed, cleaned myself back off, and began getting dressed in my workout attire. After getting dressed, I headed down stairs, and found Chloe waiting for me. She was dressed now, in her workout attire, sitting at the table.“Mas ... I mean, Joshua!” She said.“Relax, Chloe. I’m ... uh ... sorry for flying off the handle at you like that.” I said. “You didn’t deserve it.. I met today the young women with whom youcurrently reside, and under questioning she too confirmed what I haveheard - you think of women as inferior and use them merely for your ownenjoyment. For such things, reparations must be made."Nick could hear what was being said, but was having trouble parsing thewords."I see the combination of the drug, and my... well... let us call them my'abilities' are taken their effect," said the Man in the Shadows. "I donot have the time to explain all, but this. ”“He’s a lower class, gutterscum slave,” one of the scowling ones stated, only to start slightly when I detached my torc.“You were saying?” I asked with a raised eyebrow. “And before any of you get all high and mighty, none of you realised you were surrounded in the market square either,” I chuckled, re-attaching the torc.“Liar,” the guy snorted only to go silent as an AI put up a tri-dee of the square for me and marked every one of the people there who were armed with knives and waiting for.