" Yes, Grandfather. We know the rules," Nathan said."So, Joseph," Gladius said after looking the two of us over with a steady eye. "Now that you've co...pleted your treatments and have had your two weeks out looking for your slave, I take it you wish to stay and work for me?" Yes sir," I said, keeping my voice respectable."I thought you might. Nathan, since you have the capabilities now to defend yourself from the others, I'm putting you and Joseph in the Pit to begin with, and in a week or two. The Redcoat stumbled out the broken door where the girl as still tremulously pleading, "Don't, don't." Annabelle sat up, pulled down her torn shift and looked at me. I opened my eyes and she scrambled to my side."You're not dead," she whispered, a trickle of blood pulsing from her torn lip. "We've got to help Cissy."I just stared at her, and she felt around under the bed, found my big bayonet and cut me loose. I sat up and shook my head and then wished I had not done that. I touched my cheek. She flat out told me she was as much a part of your family as you are. Her mother worked for and was friends with your grandmother, and that she and your mother grew up together. They even went to college together, and you and Sally are the only two people she considers family."I just sat and looked at him, feeling shittier by the minute, for the way I had spoken to her. I sat looking at the photos on my computer, trying to remember where I knew that man at the restaurant from. I pictured. So go ahead and do as you will with the tryouts, Silternja. If you manage to recruit good seeding you are free to ask for someone else to come and take them’.“Do you all know the Ground Pool formation?” Receiving Cardinal Northstar’s aggrieved and bitter answer, Archbishop Silternja accepted his temper in understanding and proceeded to ask the eleven. The member of the church that arrived knew the formation, which is why he did not direct the question to them, too.The six of the other four.