It’s mad, Dubai. Utterly mad. The whole place is mad. It’s still an Islamic environment, but they’re not as dour as the Saudis. If I ever write ... book, which is doubtful because I’m not very verbose so I wouldn’t be able to fill it, I will set it in Dubai and I’ll write about all the skyscrapers (there are dozens), the opulence and the unashamed basking in unearned wealth while the rest of the world either burns, starves or struggles. Look, I’m Dutch: we’re one of the richest nations in the. Not like "Miss your flight and rush through the airport while forgetting to put on underwear" kind of late, but I like to get there early as a force of habit. Let's me do shit at a more comfy, sleepy pace. I luckily managed to catch a different bus, but taking a bit of a longer route. The bus was stupidly packed, but I made my way toward the middle and just kinda stood there and hung onto what I could. I'm only 5'1, so luckily some nice guy let me grab one of the dangling straps to support. She half considered hiding her face in the small bundle of clothes she’d brought to wear later but wouldn’t make herself look weak in front of new visitors. Luckily, due to her dalliance with Andrea, she wasn’t there for long before the two shifters showed up. Valerie didn’t look them straight in the eye, alphas liked to say hello first before making eye contact. Especially new, strange alphas. One of whom was a witch. The tiger’s orange was bright against the snow. Valerie had met tigers. " Who is this? Matt? It doesn't sound like you, young lady, we're goingthrough a very difficult time right now and this isn't funny." Mom, it is me, I'm undercover remember?"Matt had told his mother that he was going to be a girl as his disguiseand she laughed about it saying that it would be a good lesson for him tolearn about women. He was also supposed to tell her about the hormonesbut didn't when he changed doctors and moved to New York."My goodness, I forgot, you sound just like a girl. I.