She knew she was being slightly petty, but she felt she had a good enough reason to feel hurt. Sweeping into the dining hall, Lacie walked towards her...place at the table. Everyone else, Master included, quieted when she walked in. Most of the girls looked at her with concerned or pitying expressions on their faces. Lacie gritted her teeth, taking deep breaths to avoid lashing out at them, neither wanting nor appreciating their pity. Claire refused to look up at Lacie. Lacie stopped at her place. 'Napoleon' looked up at his strange way of speaking. "Hap," he said, and you are?" Among my tribe they call me Tetonka," the old man replied."What language is that?" Moira Lys asked."Siouan," Hap told her before the old man could answer. "Means 'bull.' Lakota, probably." Cool!" said Moira Lys. "Is there anything you don't know?" I read a lot of Native American history as a boy." No shit!" she laughed. "And you, lady? I'm Moira Lys," she said to Grandma."Her name is Haudenotsee," Tetonka. ‘Does your computer have a microphone?’ Debbi asked, leaning forward to turn on the sound. ‘Of course.’ ‘Great.’ Soon a little red dot appeared at the center of the screen. It did not stay in one fixed place, but began to swim around. The young lady professor nodded again. ‘That would be the focal point,’ she observed. ‘The idea is that the subject will be drawn to that, and after a while will be unable to look away.’ And in fact Marla Baxter could feel the compulsion to keep watching the tiny. Zar really did not think that much of her, and asked about why I should care a bit about Gracie, much less go to “all this bother.” Zar said she knew I had been with better females. Zar never understood tact, her comments were so not what Gracie wanted to hear.Gracie had never known a harsh command that brooked no reply, and was not pleased. But she knew her limits and stayed inside them. I thought it was a good lesson for Gracie if we were to be together in any way after her release.When I.