It was a few hours later when James jerked awake. He took a look around, then reached out not feeling anything. The door to his apartment opened, look...ng that way James swallowed hard. There in the doorway stood a slim, fiery red-headed, emerald colored eyed woman. Shaking his head James had to make sure, he thought she was a woman, maybe an angel.James blinked again a few times; this didn't seem real. No woman in her right mind would ever be with him."Thank goodness you're awake!" Came a voice. You'll now be lead to your room upstairs.The change will occur slowly over the next 3-4 days, andyou'll need to be under our supervision." "I... can't leave?" "Certainly not, Mr. Wheeler. There may arise a needfor painkillers or other minor complications, andfurthermore, you don't expect the general public to be okaywith a skunkman in the midst of his changes, do you? Youare the first, remember." "Hmmm. That's true. So what kind of room is thisgoing to be?" "I'll leave the nurse to show you.. I waved at her as I passed. She caught up with me when I stopped outside to read a message from the Geek.“Check your special email ... I got that mother fucker G.”It will wait until I walk around the mean streets of Richmond Va, I thought. When I looked up there stood Tonya. She didn’t look all that put together it the harsh light of day and with zero makeup.“Good morning boss,” I said with a smile. I enjoy the discomfort of her morning look.“Is that sarcasm I note not in your voice partner?”. Now, the Russian police were by then corrupt, very corrupt, and they had been that since decades back. The communist Soviet Union had a black economy comparable with the official national economy. Try to imagine, a second, complete Russian economy, hidden under the desk, ridden with organized criminality. That was the true legacy of communism, the most fucked up ideology ever. The police were hopeless, especially in St Petersburg and we could actually have ordered the security directly from the.