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Slaves?

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Yes

But Resi said we could choose names, so we did

There was one named Lemaya who was teaching me English

She was nice even though I wasn’t very good

She gave me this phone

But then she left

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Left for where?

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I don’t know

But she didn’t come back

I thought of the dead girl in the desert and shivered. Somehow, I didn’t think this Lemaya had left for a week at the health spa.

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Have you heard the name Max Langer mentioned at all? Or Keith Wainwright-Phillips?

Or about any kind of experiments or research?

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I don’t think so, but I’m just not sure

I’ll try to find out, I promise I will

She was getting frustrated again, I could tell.

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Look, try to find out anything else you can

And listen for those names especially

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I’ll ask Resi if I can figure out the words

I think she used to be a slave

I was glad people were helping her. Really, I was. But by deputizing her, I’d made her even more of a target. And if anything happened, it would be my fault. Again.

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