“But you will learn quickly and not need that sort of discipline,”


    Master Christof said Laying and wrapping around my back.


    Master Bane crouched in front of me and looked at me very seriously.


    “Promise us you will Learn quickly, Ciara,” he said.


    “I promise to learn quickly, Masters.”


    They kissed my lips and made me promise over and over again to learn quickly and to not need the


    whip.


    A N G E L A ‘s L I B R A R Y


    Later that night Master Damien unwrapped my foot and prodded it experimentally. He called the


    Healers and they told him I could walk on it. It was still a little sore, but I didn’t limp. Master Kein told


    me I would go to the Keepers the next day. He also told me I would be wearing something to keep me


    out of trouble in the water.


    As promised the next day I was taken to the Keepers again. I noticed right away it was different men


    than before greeting us. I turned to ask Master Damien but he was already striding out the wall. Turning


    back around it was a Little shocking. Every girl in thepound had walked outside to see me.


    Rose approached me, cautiously eyeing my leg. “Did they do that to you?” she asked.


    “No, the fleint marks it’s prey. My owners said it was like this from the tentacle that grabbed me.”


    “You have to tell us what happened,” Fuji demanded pulling me inside.


    I sat inside the circle of women and told them exactly what had transpired. There were questions from


    them I would not have expected.


    The most remarkable were asked when the Keepers weren’t around.


    Some of the other ves wanted to know if escape through the ocean was possible. I told them


    honestly I didn’t think so. Several girls told me they could drink the ocean water, it didn’t make them


    sick. I described the fleint and how many of them there were. Nobody should have to go through what I


    did. I begged them not to try.


    Fuji shook her head at the questions; disobeying her owners would be unthinkable to her.


    “Where would you go?” she asked the other girls. “My owners are from across the sea and the life


    there was like it is here. If you get away from here, you’ll just get taken there.”


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    Some of the other girls wouldn’t stop talking about escape and it made Fuji really mad. She finally


    started speaking angrily in her nativenguage and showed her sharp Little teeth to them. I’d never


    noticed her teeth before, they Looked like a cat’s. Rose pulled her back, but agreed with her. We were


    treated well and escaping did not work.


    The weird ufortable conversation continued until Lunch, although my friends and I stayed out of it.


    When the bell rang, I was surprised to see my Little pad not in the Lunch room. Looking out hurriedly I


    saw it in the courtyard. Warriors were alreadying in, so I made my way to it with my head down.


    A man was suddenly in front of me. I stopped and waited for him to go around me.


    ‘m proud of you for not speaking or looking,” Master Damien whispered in my ear. He motioned for me


    to follow and picked up my little pad on the way toward the exit. I followed him to the area Master


    Christof and I used to talk in.


    He sat on a stump as I knelt down. “Did you fight at home?” he asked offering a me a piece of what


    was in the bowl.


    “A little, Master Damien,” I answered and I took the food into my mouth.


    He made me exin that fighting at home was really just me getting beaten up by my drunk uncles. It


    was nothing very exciting or Warrior like.