There were many things that they could have done without me and l was more interested to know why they had chosen me for this specific role. There were many who would take this job because there were many people out there in the collapsed world that had at least my level of expertise. Although I had never seen anyone, it had been some time since my last subjugation request that I had received a private commission except for Tez or some other people. I was bored most of the time as all of these requests were for low level and some run away turned Depraves. I had been working on these types of work for a lot of time so I was not interested in such things. I had been doing off jobs for a lot of time so I had tried working my way out from simple jobs. In a millennia, one gets to experience a lot of things and I had enough of adventuring and testing while Ellaya was still a child. Maybe it was the air of being young, it had been a long time since I had lost the sense of time, I missed being young but with time, experience comes and everything sets like the sun.

  “ It is because it was approved by the council and they specially had asked for you by name.” Tuz tensed the atmosphere of the mood.

  “ Why? They can hire someone else but why me?” I tried to undermine his intentions.

  “ The reason is something that is classified and I cannot tell you that. It is of little concern. I would give a handsome reward for this trip and as far as I remember you have not forgotten about the map. Do you want to get your hands on it or not?”

  “ OK, OK. I want it and I am ready to get this arduous task but can we get there more quickly.” I complained about the time.

  “ Why? Do you want to move quickly? Oh! Yes, as far as I know you, you must not be that impatient.”

  “ I was thinking about it being my yearly vacation. I always go out once a year with Ellaya so it would be a good thing that l would consider taking this trip as one.”

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  “ Really, I thought. Thanks. It can be done beforehand, I can make the steps to quicken the process in three to four days. Thanks a lot for it.”

  “ No problem. You are my clients and it had been a while since I had made a walk out of my estate.” l tried to shrug it off as a no problem.

  “ But nevertheless thanks.” Tuz clapped his hands and he transformed in his original form by what he told me so it was a gender transition.

  “ I liked you as the old buddy.”

  “ Yeah! That was the protocol to keep you under test. You have earned my trust so at least, I can keep being myself around you.”

  “ What do you mean? You were a she not a he from the start.”

  “ Yeah! You did not know.” Tuz suddenly rolled her eyes and started to nervously cough.

  “ Yes, I did not know so please transform back, it is not a good example for Ellaya.”

  “ Oh! Come on, Dehel. Do you really have to be such a bummer all the time? I can at last be friends with someone so it is not a very big problem.”

  “ Whatever.”

  I was tired of this thing, whether it was a he or she. Just the fact that it was a Deprave was something and to top it over the bench, it was a she who transformed into a he. There were still a lot of wonders in the world that I had to take care as she was a swindler and cross dresser or transgender. It was something that I did not know what to call out. She was probably something that I did not know. It was a collapsed world so I should not be so biased. Who knows what it was that led to this transformation. I was always reprimanded by Ellaya when I made her like teddy bears and other things. Of the millions of things that there had been in the world, I had to come with a problem like gender equality problem. I did not know whether to consider her a male or a female. Let’s just call it her for the time sake or else I would have to go and hunt some Depraves to get used to this adjustment.

  “ So when are we going to get used to transport?”

  “ Do not pay attention to such things. This thing has been arranged, I can ask the caravan to make it quicker to get an early start.”

  “ OK but on a slightly less tone. Why did you keep such a big thing a secret from me?”

  “ That was to keep my identity under protocol. It was a protocol that I had to keep myself safe from humans if they might try to follow me.”

  “ Hmmmm….”

  I tried to think about it but did not come to such a rule. Yep, it was difficult to get over this one change. It appeared that it was one of the mysteries of the collapsed world.