“He’s hot, isn’t he?” The orange-hair huntress, Hazel Robinson, whispered to Sushmita.

Hazel was deputy chief with a personality that was in direct contrast from her superior. She was the approachable one, the friendly one, the one you’d want at a party because she’d light up the room.

Sushmita, on the other hand, would just dim everything down - at least, that was how she felt.

It was surprising to them both that Sushmita was appointed chief when Hazel was already deputy under their former chief, Zasper Zavier. Sushmita tried to change the defense ministry’s minds but they saw no merit in “she’d already been deputy for years”, so the...