I finished retelling some of what had happened during the week, but before long I excused myself to go and put my stuff away.I tossed my bags on the f...oor in my room and quickly got on my computer. I logged onto the remote access program I used to access the hard drives in Sam's room.I could tell that Sam had already surfed through the footage and deleted much of it. Three dated folders remained from the time during our trip.I opened each file in turn and looked through the footage. The videos. ” Winter gives a small smile. They continue eating for a few minutes, then Winter looks up at Sasha and says, “I want to request something of you.” “Go on.” Says Sasha. Winter asks “Can you take me home? I’m very far from home.” Sasha says “What’s going on? Why can’t you go home by yourself?” Winter answers her by saying “I come from a small town in the providence of Raynvalley. In payment for living at my master’s house, I am a sexual slave for him. Bandits attacked our town, killing all the. What - I gasped - what was happening? It wasn't supposed to be likethis.I wanted to scream. I wanted to cry out and put my foot down, to put astop to this here and now, but I couldn't look away from the crowd, Icouldn't let my smile fall away. The show had to go on.And so I just grinned through gritted teeth at the VIP box, glaring atthe woman I knew was responsible for all this. She grinned right back.Her lips broke into laughter as she waved a chastising finger in mydirection. A stern. She turned and left as quickly as she could. Blindly rushing out of the building, tripping on the steps up to the road, it's a miracle she wasn't knocked down as she ran across to the Millennium Gallery and into the Winter Garden.Mike hadn't seen Abigail enter; however suspicious he may have been of Sherise and her motives, he didn't know what she was up to and didn't work it out until much later. When Abigail didn't appear for lunch, he tried to call her ... but the call was rejected. He tried.