"We'd arrest the shoplifter and when it was determined that mental illness was the cause, the shoplifter would be enslaved for the crime, but the judg... would make medical treatment part of the sentence. Don't look at me that way! Adults are responsible for their actions. If the shoplifter didn't seek treatment for a medical condition, then being irresponsible was justification for enslavement." We only took the actions required to stop the illegal and unjustified deadly attack on an innocent. Following PT, Joel and I went to find Trish. It wasn’t difficult, as she had also been at PT and was coming toward us.“We need to talk,” she said before I could even open my mouth. “Find Miranda, we’ll need her also,” she said next, but Miranda was already approaching us on the now empty PT field.“Let’s go up to the office,” Trish said as Lucy joined us, and all four of us moved out. Nothing more was said until we reached the Colonel’s office.“What in God’s own name happened last night? I had. "Father thinks he's found a new market for those glass figures. The women in Grith offered him twice what he was going to open with, and he was able to add a third to that. The profit! If we can just get them to make more." Make sure more of the profit finds its way back to the glassworks." She half growled at him. That was his solution to most of these matters. Her father tended to think the profit should go to the one selling the items. That this put her in the middle ... well, she was the. It took a minute before I realized I was staring at Joan.“Uh oh. Everybody thinks you were shot down,” Beca giggled. “Better go renew your claim.” I was a little more confident this time but it had been impossible not to notice the flash of bright red panties that matched her red sailor skirt this time. She wore strappy black sandals with this outfit.“Hey sparkly-eyes,” I said as I sat next to her. “I hope you’re looking forward to our date Friday night.”“What are we going to do?” she asked,.