’ ‘I appreciate that.’ Feeling touched, she squeezed his hand in reassurance. ‘It means a lot to me that you’re doing this, because I know i...’s not easy for you. Whatever your reasons may be, know that I trust your judgement. I really do. It’s just…I was really looking forward to working on that case, and I-‘ she sighed, unable to find a way to express her frustration, ‘just – honestly, Aidan, is it because of my performance at work? Because I promise, what we have now isn’t going to change how. Of course, I wondered how she would be in bed.“What was that about?” I asked.“Reputation, I suppose.” she said, holding my gaze. “I guess you haven’t seen that little bird before, the curly-headed one with the wide blue eyes and the simpering pink smile.”“Who, Suzy?”“Indeed, Suzy, she, m’lad, is a true wonder, the talk of Washington’s camp. She had been deflowered at least a score of times that I know of.” The woman broke her bread, and attacked her stew with a tight-lipped smile while I. "Zo, I wish you to begin a full scan across everything that equipment can read. Start at the low end and move up. Report anything you find, even if it seems meaningless."Shaw shook his head sadly. "Colonel, you won't find anything, they're way too primitive to have even basic radio. When we did it on the Gardener the only thing we got was some low-level static at—"Igwanda's head snapped around to glare at the first officer. "You got what?" he barked."Just low-level static," Shaw repeated.. Anything was better than being alone with Sylvia. She even began to find some small pleasures in their attentions. Many of them, when they found out that it was allowed, had her touch herself, rub herself for the camera.By the time Christina was a teen, her mother’s addiction had stripped her of any semblance of compassion, destroyed what looks she had retained and made her even more bitter, more hardened to the suffering around her. The other whores were long gone and Christina was Sylvia’s.