Maria assures me that you personally will then be shipped back to the USA to face trial there as a slave trader. I do not know what would happen to th... woman; Maria has not yet decided whether she would be returned to us or granted asylum."The pause after he said that lengthened."Where is she now?" With the Deputy Head of Mission in the anteroom, Your Magnificence," said Sharon."Bind her and take her into our care," he ordered and a eunuch scurried off.Turning back to Sharon he asked, "That. “There’s something that doesn’t sit right with me,” Carmen continued, “It’s like someone’s cultivating the kind of people coming to the city AND the school. Things are going to look very different next year. I can imagine more girls like Daphne are gonna be hand-plucked to come here.”“I have no idea what I’m going to do without you,” Mallory chimed in, leaning on Carmen’s sturdy shoulder as they walked. “And I can’t imagine having more than one Daphne here.”---“I’ve been thinking…” Valerie kept. He found her in the kitchen with a steaming cup of tea in front of her. He joined her at the table."You have blood on your shirt."Elaina looked down and picked at the fabric, rubbing a finger at the stains."I believe you're right, sweeting." Tell me what happened?" I needed to know, to be sure ... so, I went hunting."She looked at her cup. If he hadn't known better, he would've sworn she was embarrassed."I found this ... man ... attacking a woman, a girl. I gave myself over to rage. I didn't. It was a low-budget scraper—just scraping by—so that wasn’t unusual. Looking at the camera though…well, I always cringed at that. In most of the film industry that would have been a no-no: you simply don't look at the camera or the man holding it. I’ve been on multi-million dollar gigs, and the pros know how to read a script…well, they actually have a script with words. I think Leon got the picture-book version. They all got the picture-book version.Ah, fuck it. Why was I complaining? I was.