Anyway, the evening wore on and everyone was getting pretty rowdy. I was getting pretty shitfaced. Lisa was definitely the hit of the party. The 3 ot...er wives that were there were OK, but they were no match for Lisa. I had convinced Lisa to wear a hot dress. She could not wear a bra with it. It was kind of a summer type dress, and it would fly up when she was dancing and getting twirled around. I had been keeping an eye on her as she was asked to dance by about every guy at the party.. "You're going to call in a Shifter?"The colonel shook his head. "No, this won't be complicated enough torequire flying in a Shifter." Shifters were fairly rare. They could turnthemselves or other into different men in a matter of minutes. As aresult, all Shifters were required to work for the government. Theirpowers were considered too dangerous to be unregulated. "Our local techswill be able to do everything we need done." So we're not talking about big changes...?" That's right; nothing too. Toleration extends to allowing alcohol to be sold to foreign workers in the country, though only within their company compounds. Women are taught to read and write, at least in some harems.Of course, these facilities are not all available to all the population, but for all those who matter, the better families, they are taken for granted. A field slave might not benefit from all of them, but the medical services ensure that a slave no longer has to be put down if an over-enthusiastic owner. I ran out of there and away from Miranda as fast as I could. I went to the rest rooms and locked myself in one of the stalls. I figured nobody, not even Miranda would find me there. I was going through my thoughts and feelings about everything in the past few days and even the years that I could remember about Val. My thoughts ended up on Val and that special picture of her that I was thankful was in one of the good containers and not in the camera, when I heard two guys talking."You notice how.