She knew she needed to tread a fine line. The Serratians had many followers, particularly among the people Joseph most wanted to help: the poor and do...ntrodden.But Joseph had been adamant that the Serratians were not exempt from the law. The sect’s leader, the bishop, had helped to orchestrate The Fall and Wilhelm had made Serrat the country’s official religion not long after his accession. Joseph had rescinded that proclamation immediately upon taking the throne. Azkoval would have no. But maybe they kept these video recordings as night time entertainment when the visitors got bored? I wondered about the menu on their in-room televisions. No doubt as well as CNN there would be porn films, but were there also films of us, and of all the other girls who had worked on the farm over the years?Suddenly I guessed that they would be offering live television, and right now, I was sure, many of the guests would be lying in bed watching me!Oscar also was watching approvingly, as his. Karen and I had even covered this in our planning for the family meeting so I should have known better. If Karen hadn’t been in front of her children and one of her child’s friends, she absolutely would have asked the same question, I was certain of it. What did, ‘not overdoing it’ actually mean anyway? I decided on the spur of the moment that four times an hour would be fair. That was a hundred jumping jacks an hour if the kids wanted to see her do that many. I confirmed that with Claire.I. At this rate he'll either end up in prisonor killing someone before he ever learns any kind of control at all, andeven if he does manage to get through puberty without that happeninghe'll just end up hurting people in other ways like his father did. Idon't want him to be a lost cause, but I don't know what else can bedone."A new stream of tears coursed down Barbara's face as her sister slowlymoved in front of her and knelt down on the floor. Placing her hands onBarbara's shoulders and looking.