To distract my mind, I tried to focus on the here and now.

“What happened to Vesa and her friends?” I asked Rose.

Fuji answered for Rose. I wasn’t supposed to know. She was here, but she would not be speaking to me. Everyone had been given instructions not to talk about what had happened to her and to keep us apart.

I sighed and shook my head. If I wasn’t supposed to know, Fuji would make sure I never did. A command from her owners was all it took. Their word was law.

“I would like,” Rose said formally, “to swim with you in the ocean. The activity would be good for both of us.”

I could not believe I’d heard her correctly. When she asked the Keepers to remove her ornamentation and stepped into the sea with me, I was more shocked. The pool in the mountains had seemed Like torture for her everyday. She’d always done just the required laps and jumped out.

be less afraid,” she said as we

took her hand and we walked a little farther out. She wasn‘t truly comfortable in the water, so we just walked

mindset. They have requested I also change mine. I

“Your family, not your owners,

so animated suddenly as she

I thought it would be as it was before. Perhaps away from the influence of your family they would change back, but they have not,” she said excitedly. “I have a chair at the table

didn’t tell me they treated you different,” I

sure it would last…They offered,” she said suddenly shy, “they offered to send

my ears as I Looked at her. Jealousy exploded in me as she talked. No one would stop her if she wanted to

N G E L A ‘s L I B R

tell my family I was? I wouldn’t know where to work or what to do. Besides

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