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    Christmas was here, the day for celebrations and festivities and for Scarlet, it should have been one filled with excitement. But instead, she was standing outside the spacending port with the three ministers of the Blue star, Markay and her husband as they waited for the Xenoan ship tond on their.


    She had barely processed the news shared by Markey when the emperor called as early as four in the morning to share the news that she would be ying host to the guests who would being with the empress.


    So, here she was, standing miserably under an umbre in the ring hot sun which had returned with a hateful vengeance after winter. What made her miserable was the fact that the Xenoans werete. That, and the inappropriate way Princess Floozy was dressed.She had joined the weingmittee which no one objected to since these were her people but the way she was dressed was causing difort and embarrassment.


    It was hot, sure, everyone could feel the heat but that was no excuse to walk outside in a transparent dress that showed all of her body.The tiny shorts she was wearing to cover her private parts did not help much and the ck pattern at the front covered her breasts but did not hide her very sharp nipples.


    "She should just take off the dress and walk around naked." Fey whispered into Scarlet''s ears from the back. "Is this really the way Xenoans dress?"


    "Who knows?" Scarlet whispered back in an irritated voice.


    Princess Floozy lifted her right hand wrist slowly as if they were boneless or exhausted and she fanned herself with a hand held fan she acquired from Blue mart. One of her servants rubbed a damp cloth against her neck and she pouted her lips and tried to look appealing.


    "Oh, a floozy remains a floozy." Fey said, shaking her head and shooting the veiled princess a disapproving re.


    If they were not on live television because the emperor wanted the visit to be seen by all the citizens, Scarlet thought to herself that she would have ordered Tion to throw floozy in a pool of water to cool off.


    The woman waved at Esong, and she smiled beneath that veil on her head.


    Scarlet scowled and clenched her fists. "It''s okay, this will be over soon and she will be out of our hair." Esong whispered to her.


    "It better be soon because I will do something drastic Esong, I swear."


    Esong heard her words and he wondered how many times he had heard his own grandmother threaten to do something ''drastic''


    The Xenoan ships arrived, two of them, they looked vastly different from their own ships. They had blue and green gems or lights embedded into theirrge frame. They were also fast, she could liken their appearance to the blinking abilities of a reaper.


    "They are here." Esong said.


    "How many guests were we told to expect?" she asked him.


    "Twelve." he answered.


    "That''s more than twelve." she told him. With her grim reaper vision, she could see into those space ships. Twenty people hade here, already, the Xenoans were telling lies, or the emperor had made a mistake.


    Esong frowned and he looked at her unsurely, "Are you sure?"


    "Use your mental strength, you will see that what I tell you is true." she answered.


    "They have shield blockers on the ships, I can''t see inside." he told her.


    He was trying, she could tell, because he was frowning, his eyes were squinted and he was looking at the Xenoan ships with so much concentration.


    She touched his arm and injected some of her energy into him.


    "Oh," he gasped, suddenly he could see past buy their blockers. It was weird that he could suddenly easily see into the ships but that was not what mattered the most at this moment "I see it, they have people in pods."<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    "What should we do?" she asked.


    "Do you want to y catch the spy or should we just force them to bring out their excess baggage?"


    Catch the spy was a game children yed in the virtual world. One person would be the spy whose mission was to destroy the headquarters of a team while the team hunted for the spy before they were sessful.


    It was a simple game, adults did not y it but the children loved it.


    "Should we y?" she asked Esong. "The animals have been boredtely as well."


    "Okay, we are ying." Esong said and he snapped his fingers.


    He had a big smile on his face and she wondered if he realized that he was suddenly excited for this spying game.


    "Tag, you are it." Scarlet added.


    He gave her a confused look, and said, "Huh."


    "Nothing." she said. "They are getting off."


    Scarlet was keeping an eye on all the spaceships that had arrived, including the royal spaceship on which the empress had arrived.


    When she and her people alighted, Scarlet frowned immediately.


    "Oh, you have got to be kidding me." she said, loudly, and with a sneer on her face. "Who released Crue and gave her a free pass to my?"


    All the eyes of those who were close enough to hear what she said looked in the direction of the empress, is it her? Did the governor call the empress Crue? What did that name mean?


    "I had no idea she wasing, I promise." Esong hurried to hold her hand and say.


    Everyone''s thoughts rearranged themselves, they all knew that the empress wasing. She could not be Crue. They looked at the other women that were apanying the empress, not the servants but the noble women walking closely with her but not next to her.


    "Is that Madam Emory Wu?" Fey asked, loudly.


    "You mean she whose name cannot be mentioned, I can''t believe she is really here." Adler said.


    "Stop it, all of you." Dorian tilted forward and warned his children. First of all, they were in public and no matter how much they loathed the woman, it was not proper to say all this.


    Secondly, she was Esong''s mother, how could they say this in front of her?


    "Sorry Esong, the children sometimes say things they don''t mean." he apologized.


    "Oh, I am sure they mean them." A surprising voice joined the conversation, Cecily''s. "Don''t worry, it''s not news to us or Esong that their is no love lost between you Su''s and Emory. But, this is a historical moment like Scarlet likes to say, everybody should smile and wait until we are out of public to bare their ws and teeth. If this interary rtionship falls through, we do not want it to be med on ourck of proper attitudes."