Miami's Design District was a cathedral of consumption — three blocks of luxury boutiques, art galleries, and restaurants where a sandwich cost forty dollars and nobody blinked. Isabella had been planning this expedition since the second day of the vacation. She'd made a list. The list had categories. The categories had subcategories.
"We start at Hermès," she announced, distributing itineraries she'd printed on cardstock. "Then Gucci, then Louis Vuitton, then we break for lunch at a place I've already reserved, then we continue."
"This is a military operation," Victoria said, reading the itinerary.
"This is a shopping operation. Military operations have lower standards."
[Ding!]
[Host Stress Level: 53%.]
[Notice: First Queen has distributed a color-coded shopping itinerary with timestamps. The System notes structural similarities to Second Queen's schedule. The System finds this ironic.]
