"Just one year, you hear? After that I'll take them to my new home and I'll have time for them again. You go and find them school and board for a year..."He smiled weakly and he could tell that she wanted to grin."I should have known that they would try this. Only if you are really okay with it. Believe it or not, I don't want to be a wedge between you and your daughters, ever."She nodded solemnly. "I know that. That's why I'm okay with it. For one year."Two pairs of big blue eyes hung on him as. " She said as she sat down next to Carly on the bed.Carly kept smiling. "Break any hearts lately?"Melanie shook her head. "No. Not really."They both were sitting Indian-style, facing each other."No boyfriend?" Carly asked."No." Me neither." Carly told her. "I would think in college it would have been easier to find a boyfriend but it's not really. It may actually be harder."Melanie only half heard what Carly said. She was trying to think of way to tell Carly her secret. She just couldn't come. She walked over to the ladder outof her quarters and climbed it to get up to the corridor, and began to walkdown to the mess hall. Zoe entered the room and saw Inara sitting at thetable with a cup of tea in front of her. Zoe walked over to the drinking tapand took a glass pouring herself a drink, she then proceeded to the chairopposite Inara and they both drank."Still having trouble sleeping?" Inara asked looking up from her drink."Yeah, I just keep having the same nightmare." She replied. You’ve done the dirty work around the arena. One day your owner decided that it might be a good idea to make you fight someone twice your size, right in the sand of the arena. It was a death sentence and everybody knew it. You only got a stick but you killed him with it. Since that day you fought regularly and as the province didn't have any fighters left, they sold you again, so you can fight on the big stage in the capitol. Still undefeated."“That’s not how it happened,” Akin says.“Then tell.