Leda calmed her sister, even as the shouted words rang off the walls of their small quarters.
“Are you trying to wake up the whole neighborhood?”
Cythia was moving back and forth in a small circle. She had already attained enough rotations to wear a track in the already bare carpet.
“I cannot believe that you are doing this again.” Cythia added.
“It’s two thousand dollars, Cythia. Do you have any idea what we could do with that kind of money?” Leda replied.
She looked pointedly at Argus’s empty sleeping pallet. Even though it was already early evening, he hadn’t come back home. She didn’t want to think about what he might be out doing. There were too many temptations on the streets of the slums for a poor boy. It was just another reason that she had to earn enough credits to get all o
