They never let me in the kitchen and they made the customers leave their weapons behind, so the only thing I could think of was making a customer angr... enough to lose control and kill me. I almost made it once but he just beat me up. I wanted a big, strong man who'd get his hands around my neck and choke me to death. Until you started gambling I thought you might be the one."Urgah sat up straight and his eyes grew wide. "By all the Gods, Talia, don't talk like that." Why not, if that's the way. She looked for a light switch by the door, found it, and pushed it up. A light came on in the middle of the ceiling, in a dusty white shade, illuminating the dingy room which had a bed in it. And a small TV. There were two doors at the end, which turned out to be for a shower room and a tiny kitchen. In the kitchen was a big cardboard box, closed with tape, sitting on the worktop.Was someone in the cottages next door? Could it be her mum, and the aliens? She looked at the bed: it was big enough. "I'm fine, thank you. I'll tell you why I am here later," she replied,"but how I found you was planned long ago. Some years ago, I was lookingfor something and I came across Mother's old address book and slippedinside it was your change of address card. I have kept it ever since."She told me about her life. How the church group had dominated her as achild, so much so she had no other social contact outside school. Howwhen she turned fourteen the son of another church member was matchedwith her. "No," Sam said.The man shrugged again and continued driving in silence. Eventually, they passed a small wooden sign that read, "Green Hills college." Grain Mountain..." Sam muttered. "Good job, Eleanor."Many uphill twists and turns later, the ground leveled out and the taxi drove into a modestly sized campus. It looked like it consisted of one main three-story building, (the classrooms and offices, Sam assumed), a wide and narrow, single floor building (the dorms?) and a few miscellaneous,.