Chapter Seven
Day One – New Jewellery
Dr Jannason
When I’d closed the door to her room, I reflected upon the deep influence of a culture on one of its younger members. Delilah, unlike her female peers in the West, had caved in almost immediately to the demands of the Ambassador, and I supposed this was due to the roots of her society being a patriarchy, with the attitude of obedience having been absorbed from birth. As a girl, she had grown up with the unconscious knowledge and acceptance of the fact that males in her society held all the power, and it was fruitless to disobey.
The documents had nevertheless been completed fully and properly, if not willingly; thus, the way had been cleared for the series of operations that were to begin in ten hours. I needed to be fully up to spee
