The deviceswould remain in place for the duration of her confinement and only removedfor training or other necessity. By this time she had regained fu...l consciousness and even with the bondagehood and blindfold in place I'm certain she realized that her restraints wereinescapable. I then detached the blindfold from the hood allowing her firstlook at Max and I, Max still wearing his ski mask but I was unmasked. She pleadedto know her fate and I calmly explained to her that we had targeted her. I pulled the girl down by my feet, got on my knees, ducked low and whipped hard. Another ball thunked into a trunk behind us, and a man stepped out beside the road with a musket leveled at me. He could not have missed, so I whoaed at the team, yanked the reins and pulled on the brake."Damn smart thing t'do," the man pointing the gun at me said, a nasty, gap-toothed smile on his deeply-pocked face."What do you want?" I asked."Money," he said, "and whatever else you got that's worth. Film line mein pichle dus saal se hu. Yeh jo kahani sunane ja raa yeh satya ghatna per adharit hai. Yeh baat sach hai ki casting couch hota hai aur stardom ka rasta producer, ya director ya hero ke ya phir teeno ke bedroom se hi gujarata hai . Ek ladki gaon se apni mummy ke saath bambai aayee thi heroine banne. Usene apne photo khichvaye aur ek studio se doosre studio kaam ke liye bhatkne lagi. Us doorand uski moolakat ek mushoor hero se hogayee. Hero ne ashwasan diya ki woh kuch karega, usene. "Sorry, I think we gaveyou a bit more ginger than you needed before the prophet came. She's beengone a while. Sorry about her calling you 'it' -- we told her, afterwards,that we were NOT OK with that. In the future we'll ask for differentprophets, if we need them."We didn't unlock you completely yet just in case you forgot that you werenaked and moved around while you were waking up. Be careful - you're stillonly covered by that towel. But now that you're awake, we'll unlock you,leave the room.