Extraordinary Retribution
“Like Michael Jackson, no?” The soldier laughed heartily as the wraith placed bottle after bottle and vial after vial on the shelves of the medicine cabinet.“Something similar. More sophisticated. More dangerous.”“More dangerous? Did you see his face in the end? Melted wax.”“He spent decades modifying his appearance. The mistakes accumulated.” The bottles were labeled with different abbreviations, and he sorted them into groups. “I need to begin far enough in advance to achieve the desired effect. Lucky for me, there are armies of chemists in Asia working without sleep to make the skin whiteners for their fashion-conscious women.”The soldier nodded. “The madness of women! In the West they wish to become brown, in the East, white! In my grandmother’s time, in old Russia, it was better to be fat to catch a man. Now, they must starve like an Ethiopian!” He thumped his chest with his thumb and grinned. “What man wants a woman with a flatter chest than his own?” The wraith did not respond.
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