Chapter Fourteen
Cartmel invited Clarity, Ambi and Lanai to an outdoor breakfast the next day by the door of the relational board house. Cartmel was playing around with his docket, playing a form of language sudoku or word sequence game.
"I am going on a retreat today," he said.
"How fun, where is it being held?" Asked Lanai.
"In the barn of Honey Ranch, over there. You can attend with me."
Clarity and Lanai attended the retreat in the last row of the large stable, witnessing how a Rolls Royce, allegedly belonging to Lyle Matchett, the official owner and head of Herbaline, came out of the area normally used for horses, driven by Rhona Binney herself. Cartmel walked past several ladies attending the talk and looked at Clarity as she sat not too far from the door of the barn.
"It´s me," said Cartmel, looking at Clarity, "I am the instructor of the retreat."
Lanai held hands with Clarity and Ambi held hands with Lanai.
"Wow, you are the instructor of this retreat, we're in for a sales talk treat," said Clarity.
"How did you make your way here, you cannot attend this private gathering, as long as Rhona has not approved your admission."
"You said we could attend a few minutes ago," said Clarity.
Cartmel gave them a smirk and began the retreat, noticing Rhona was nodding their admission to the retreat, as she opened the driver's door of the Rolls Royce. One of the girls opened the Rolls Royce passenger back door for Rhona and another girl got in naked through the other door of the British luxury sedan.
The retreat was being held for high level sales experts ranking multilevel five and above. Cartmel explained that the emotion and arousal fingerprint of all employees was held by Herbaline. As a result of a new set of instructions given by Stive, no employees, including sales experts could have access to it anymore. The emotion fingerprint was banned and stored in the company's analytic emotion processor to study individual and group behavior. According to Manglove, arousal-guided love and relationships, and deep-arousal encounters, flourished into very stable relationships, and promotion decisions based on flirting habits had to be considered carefully.
The payroll information of Herbaline employees was being shown in other areas of the company. Their spending and sales ability patterns, were being charted by a Herbaline provider belonging to the lower snow globe, separate from Herbaline, and supervised by Ivy. The provider was a microchart interpretation firm in Singapore, Visual Emotone. A new way of viewing life was opening to all ladies at the retreat, the polyamorous lifestyle. Manglove lived a polyamorous life with Stive, non exclusive love with other bisexual women, including Ivy and the maid at Herbaline Civic Center, and also including the roommate of Ivy, a good looking blond woman in her twenties who had au paired in Orange County from Northern Italy, Chiara.
Manglove monitored the women at the ranch for pleasure, arousal and sexual inclinations of love, as a Herbaline health or arousal nurse. She was particularly interested in pairing Ivy with Clarity. According to Manglove, emotion came from meaning, assigning meaning to a stimulus of alert, which elicited the emotion as warning to the body or as reassurance signal that things, including a relationship, were safe for the person. In any case, the stimulus came from outside, and so the person in and of itself was good, no matter how negative the emotion was. Manglove entered the retreat and found Ambi, suggesting that the former recluse stay at the love ranch with Cartmel.
After two hours going over sales figures of Herbaline, the retreat was over. Cartmel had not exchanged much with Coley. Their relationship was not that good after Stive had forbidden any flirting by Cartmel with Manglove, and Cartmel spoke mostly with Stive from then on, mostly about business matters. Manglove approached Cartmel, who was leafing through the Herbaline sales figures showing that his communications course had created greater personal stability, and increased spiritual abilities in twelve percent of those taking the course.
"I want Clarity and her friend out of Herbaline," said Manglove.
"What about Ambi?"
"We're through with Ambi, all the arousal and language data is being processed, you can have her, Stive and I are keeping Ivy and the au pair girl, or the maid, they're going to live with us in Cayman."
"What about my promotion?" Asked Cartmel.
"Check your docket, your results should be in."
The motivational guru checked a screen on his docket smartphone connected to the lower globe chat. Results were not what he expected. He was refused admission into the lower globe, because his thinking did not reach the level of wisdom and maturity needed, six, reaching instead the level five point five seven. The emotion scale did not lie, and emotional maturity, a very particular definition of it, was needed to get promoted at Herbaline and engage in sex with a larger group of good looking women, those three women he had in mind, Clarity, Lanai and Ambi.
According to the members of the low key hemisphere, a discreet group of counterparts, Cartmel's arousal was not quite fine tuned for full consensus admission into the lower globe. Only one out of four women involved with him at 'Honey Ranch', agreed to engage in arousal activity with him. Rhona Binney and Manglove told him that he would have to remain a multilevel five salesman another year, despite the good efforts as motivational and sales guru of the company.
Several guests attending the retreat, multilevel six and seven people coming from all parts of the globe, were planning the return leg of their trip. Only they could move in and out of Herbaline freely, but no one knew what they did professionally, no one knew their job outside of Herbaline. Ivy came inside the closed door barn, she was the hostess organizing the return trip for all guests, including Clarity, Lanai, and Ambi. For Clarity and Lanai, it was the initial leg of a plane trip, but it was a clear signal that Herbaline wanted them out of the company.
"Where are we headed?" Asked Clarity.
"Singapore, we are flying you on a business trip."