Jim winced. Of course, no one but himself would be aware of any change between cosmic histories. "Ahh -- let's hear you recite my position in the world and how it came to be."
"As you wish," Vanilla replied happily, always eager to entertain. "Now that the world is ruled by the matriarchy of the Feminist United Nations, or FUN, we women have become relaxed and gracious enough to grant, by way of lottery, the purely symbolic title of King of All Women to one lucky man each year -- and you won only yesterday!"
Jim's feelings were mixed -- while he had expected something much more absolute, or authoritarian, he liked the explanation's (relative) reasonability.
"What does Master desire now?" teased Vanilla, and the other two matched her impish coquettishness.
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