"Over the years when the four queens were selected anew there would always be four shadows as am sure you all know."
"What you don't know is that one of those shadows has always been the priestess that is in line to become the next head priestess."
"Why would the next head priestess need to be a shadow? The roles are completely different." Sarah inquired.
"Two reasons as I said before, the first was for life experience and to become true friends with 'The Four Queens."
"As you know shadows are trained from a young age, like Grandma Alexia taught you four from a young age, we." Here June indicated herself and sister shadows. "We were also taught from a young age to be shadows."
"My training was different however, along with being trained as a shadow I was also being trained as a priestess and groomed to replace my mother."
"While my shadow training started young like all off yours, though we did not realize at the time what we where being groomed for, my priestess training did not begin until we all started our individual training in our chosen careers."
"Alexia you of course trained in becoming a celebrity as per your parents' wishes."
"Jane you also followed your parents' wishes and trained in management to become Alexia's manager."
"Sarah trained in business management as per her parents' wishes."
"Gracie is the odd one out here because her parents allowed her to follow her own path which is why she was given the secret mission she just finished, but we will come to that later. in the end Gracie followed her cousin Sarah into business management."
At this point June took a moment to drink some water before she continued,
"Shadows as you are aware cannot have their own careers because our career is to guard our four queens and so each shadow goes through the same basic training in order to learn the skills they need to guard their queens, these include."
"Hand to hand combat, use various of various types or weapons, from small knives to pistols to sniper rifles and even RPG's, different assassination and stealth techniques, how to keep a body in peak physical shape, movement techniques to be able to quickly cross any terrain, information gathering and hacking skills and so on."
"Once we have completed basic training that's where we can learn our choice of expertise just how you queens learned your careers."
"While we are free to choose whatever expertise, we wish it is advised we learn different ones so that we are a more diverse team,"
"Alex for example decided her expertise would be Assassination, infiltration and espionage, making her able to infiltrate almost anywhere and look like she belongs there while she gathers all needed data and assassinate any targets she has."
"Gwen decided to focus her expertise on theft and becoming the ultimate femme fatale, in this way she learned to make the use of her body, charm beauty and sexual allure to get what she needed and wanted from any man or women while using her theft training to be able to access almost anything that's locked."
"Sophie's focus was on long range weapons and battlefield support. With her skills in long range combat, she could use a sniper rifle at distance to pick off targets while also providing detailed real time mission updates and perimeter changes because of her training in battlefield support."
"When we went our separate ways to learn our chosen expertise was the time I went and began my priestess training, though of course my sisters did not know that. They were informed I was gaining expertise in the medical field which is not far from the truth since the society priestesses are trained in both physical and mental aid."
At this point June turned to the other shadows before bowing her head and saying.
"Sisters I apologies for hiding the truth from you but it was necessary for my secret missions."
The other shadows looked at June for a moment before they smiled and responded.
"It's fine June we understand since we all have our responsibilities, yours just happened to include more than us." Sophie replied with a calm smile.
"Hmph thought I don't like that you hid it from us it was on the order of the council and tradition by the sound of it, so I will forgive you. But you're buying the cake next time we go out to eat some." Alex said pretending to be mad to which June only smiled and nodded."
"Well, I suppose I can let it go but it's going to cost you." Gwen said with a perverted smile before continuing. "I want you to use your special skill on me next time we have sex."
"That's fine Gwen, I know you like my skill and maybe we can even let Michael have a taste of it." June replied with a sexy wink.
"Ohhh good idea lets share him and see how he reacts to your skill." Gwen said before giggling.
The Four Queens, including Gracie who frowned this time before Alexia spoke.
"Excuse me? What's this about you letting Michael have a taste? He has not even had us four yet and you shadows want to steal him beforehand? Besides he has not been given the choice yet."
"I would not be so sure of that," June said with a smile making all the girls except Gracie frown.
"Explain." Jane demanded.
"All in good time Jane, that topic will come up when we get to Gracie's secret missions, for now let me finish explaining mine if I may?" June requested.
Three of the four queens looked unhappy at this, but they agreed in the end.
"Fine." Alexia said with a pout.
"So, continuing, as am sure you know the previous four queens before you and the head priestess my mother had a great relationship and called each other sisters." June started and all the other girls nodded in agreement.
"This is naturally because like me she was a shadow to the previous four queens before you and over the time they spent together they became as close as sisters and learned to love each other as I hope we all do even after this incident." June said with slight worry in her eyes as she looked at the other seven girls who she loved and treated as sisters.