Tess sat in History class,she wasn't paying much attention to what was being said ,she was worried. She knew that Erica had been summoned to the Abbes...' study ,she knew why,but was told by Erica not to get herself in trouble,they had only seen her and not Tess. "Are you paying attention,Tess ?" the Monk at the top of the class said."Yes," Tess said meekly."What did I say last,my girl?"Tess felt everyone in the class look at her."Eyes front or I will spank you all," the Monk said."Well,Tess,what. Slowly he steps from the shadows, moving with sophistication that Yulia would not expect to see in a homeless man. Of course, her view of the homeless is that of drunken, staggering fools.The words that come from her mouth next come freely, without thought. “I hope you don’t mind, I got started without you.” With that she hears a subtle shift in her own voice between seductive and submissiveness.“I see that,” he says.Yulia is perched on her hands and knees on the ground. Her ass is wide open. She said that her father let her go to school when he couldn't do anything else with her. Fighting Hawk laughed.She looked strangely at him and asked him how it was that he could read, and not speak English. Tom looked at her and spoke in English, "Who said that I couldn't speak English?" She stared at him as it became clear that there were many things that she still didn't know about him. She sat down on the ground with a thump, and spilled his lunch. He laughed at the shock on her face."You. Moses offered to come along, but India had refused. She wanted to blend in.And she did.When she later returned to the barge, Moses didn't recognize her for a moment, so completely had she adopted the clothing and manner of these displaced people.The second time had been at a makeshift brothel near the front line."I can't tell you how awful a place like this can be, " he had begged her.The cry of a young girl from within accentuated his point. The girl had probably lived on this station with her.