I call Tara to come to chat with me in the bedroom after she finishes with work. Tara is fun to talk to. I ask her more questions about the people in the villa and whether Frank's mother is horrible to everyone and not just me. I introduce Tara to Lucea as my new friend. Lucea jokingly says she is jealous, that she is going to get married too and have new friends far from home. We all laugh, and when I do so, I feel the tension in my body lessen. I tell Lucea everything that happened.
"That last day you saw me," I say, "I got very angry and sad that Queen Letitia killed the only remembrance I had of my twin brother Gilbert. I had always planned on running away, anyway, for I couldn't continue living that life. She just made me want to leave earlier when she did that. I slept in people's
