“Alexis, you’ll be helping Lucius, my right-hand man. As well as working the bar, he’s also in charge of keeping the girls safe, throwing out be...ligerent customers, and running certain errands for me. You’ll help pick up the slack. In exchange, you’ll receive room and board, a stipend for all your hard work, and protection from the kingdom. Now then, come along. There is work to be done.”Though hesitant, they followed Cyrilo and Daniel into the city, where the Knight’s Day celebration was still. We both knew that her preferred mode of recreation was as a soloist. She flopped down on her back onto the comfortable chair, hoisted her glass toward the lagoon, and said "To Jamaica!" After a couple of deep gulps of the powerful drink, she turned to me and said, "Any chance we could stay an extra week?" I'll look into it, at the end of this week, if you still want me to, Shiann." I smiled inwardly. We'll see, I thought, we'll see.She sipped her drink and tanned topless for a while, after. .." He sighed, and I nodded understanding. Before he ended up on the street, before he was recruited. She was most likely dead. "She had curly hair. She and my mother used to fight over combing out her hair all the time. She'd end up bawling, half bald, every time she washed her hair. Until I realised I could help." He prodded me until I turned and sat with my back to him, and he knelt behind me. I closed my eyes, humming in pleasure as he used his deft fingers to pick out the snarls, smoothing. "Oh, okay," I say, shrugging and trying not to look nonchalant."Back in Brighton," Tom clarifies. "You might know her from school, hername's Caitlin, Caitlin Gunn?" My heart sinks further as I hear the namethat I haven't heard in a long time- the name of the girl who I was soclose to as a child, but who I haven't spoken to in years..."Yeah," I sigh. "Yeah, I know her. Is- is she studying in London too?" No, works at Primark back in Brighton," Tom says. "Think I remember nowthat you used to be.