The plight of women alone here was damning enough. As far as he could tell, this Chirurgen had broken no laws by what he'd done—so outing him to the...Duke was a non-starter. Women and children were little better than property here and "might makes right" after all. As awful as it was, at least what happened to his mother and sister back home was illegal. Here on Chaos it would just be considered unfortunate.All of the sudden, Tory realized what he'd been humming. And he was struck by the thought. ? Unfortunately thelease ended this month.?? Jill had knownthat Traci was barely scraping by herself.?She had asked her where she had come up with all the new foundwealth.? She doubted that it was comingfrom Traci?s new boyfriend Ted.? He was agreat guy, and definitely nice to look at, but unless he had inherited a bigchunk of money, he was broke too.? Tracihad danced around the subject when Jill had first confronted her, but shefinally spilled the beans.? She had beenworking for a kinky. 00 made out to you as beneficiary. I need you to sign and date the sheet attached to the check that acknowledges you received the check," I said."JBG started a college fund for your two girls. JBG employees donated $150,000.00 dollars to the fund. JBG added $50,000.00 to make it an even $200,000.00 so each girl would have a $100,000.00 head start for college. If they go to college they can draw against it for tuition at age 18. If they do not go to college they have to wait until they are 26 to. "Lost in thought, Aislin didn't even see the village headman's wife Searaapproach, followed by small group of other village wives."Good evening, Mistress Seara." Aislin turned around; putting on thebest smile, she could at the moment. She had not seen Rowena's mother inquite some time, which for her was no great loss. Still, Aislin didn'tknow why but something odd was going on."May I ask where are you going tonight?"Aislin wondered why the concern. "I'm off to visit Renn." I'm sorry, we cannot.