Taking advantage of that, I put some tape over her mouth too, and then sat to wait for the cunt to wake up. Half an hour later she awoke, and she was ...ISSED. She started squealing, shaking, making all sorts of noise. I stood up and walked over, before hauling back and then slapping her hard across the face. "Shut the fuck up cunt!" I yelled in anger. My tone made her aware of my seriousness, because she didn't make another peep. "Now. You tried to stab me? What the fuck were you thinking?. We should know in a week or less."Over the next week, everyone focused on their tasks. Bob and Erica's group defined the security changes needed to provide advanced warning of anyone approaching, or landing on the island. A series of detection rings were established around their settlement. The density of detectors as increased as they came closer to the settlement. They had also decided on a number of defensive measures to be taken around the valley, to make it easier to defend themselves. Bob. I didn’t want anybody to accidentally walk in on this discussion. As soon as the meeting began Jim turned the floor over to me, “I am pissed. I do not know who it was, but somebody drugged Tina. They could have killed her. This isn’t like the drugs you are used to. She doesn’t just go and get her stomach pumped or some dumb shit when she ODs. What you gave her was some high tech designer drug that is not on the street. If she died, the cops would have been all over us. Fuck, you imbeciles.. She wasn’t the worst looking Upkeep but her eyes were too far apart and her frame oddly squared. 
“Master turned down forty gold for you today. Master Boris was furious. It’s better he just gets it over with so there’s less fuss, he took it out on one of the other girls. Beat her blue and left her chained to the wall.” 
Mika didn’t speak, afraid the Upkeep would tell Sarkis. Instead she just stared down at her meal of fish and cabbage. 
“You really are beautiful though, and the businessmen are.