What do you say to 275 gold pieces?”“Make it 260, and you have a sale.”Tonto’s face lit up and he reached out to shake my hand. I shook his ha...d and paid him the 260 gold coins he wanted. I took my new weapon and dropped it into my belt pouch. After some general conversation, we left. I said, “Let’s visit the jeweler to see what he has in gems.We went into the jeweler’s shop and exchanged the usual greetings. “What can I show you today? I have some beautiful baguette-cut diamonds that would. “You’re gonna laugh your ass off when I tell you what it is.”He returned to his serious tone.“My mother was a sex slave procured for the sole purpose of conceiving me. That’s how he’s kept the madness going all these years; bringing in captive women to keep the men loyal and breed the next generation. And God help any girls born in the compound! They are raised to be slaves to the men. The dogs are treated better! I’m told he paid good money for a woman whose Aryan heritage could be verified to. I will be fifteen in two weeks." No shit!?!?" Zero," I said. Now that I knew what his angle was, I decided to sort of crank things up. "I've been here since last June." You're a freshman?"I saw Susan's smirk behind him. "Nope. Just never attended the orientation. I'm unclassified as far as the 'freshman' thing is concerned." How can you be unclassified?" Same way I can go to college when I'm fourteen." I smirked. "And this is Nikki and she's sixteen, and Tina here is eighteen and Susan is. I’m still staring at my blue-grey wall and white ceiling. My white arm still parts my navy-blue comforter. What the hell? Did I do it wrong? With undue concentration I try willing myself out of bed. I can feel my synapses firing giant green bolts of electricity to my extremities. Blue-grey wall. White ceiling. White arm. Navy comforter. Oh my god I’m paralyzed! I immediately begin to test my theory. I raise an arm, a leg. I bend at the elbow and flex at the knee. I make a snow-angel and.