Chapter Twenty-Nine
Record of interrogation.
Subject: Maire XXX (redacted)
Interrogator: Cassie XXX (redacted)
Maire: This is it? They send me one of my s*x slaves to do the interrogation? Still got your slave c**t-ring?
Cassie: So straight off we can say you were a slave-owner, but we have plenty of testimony for that anyway. This interrogation is to find out how involved you were in the larger picture—in the whole structure of slave labor.
Maire: (Shrugs) The system was in place already when I took over the communications company. But you must know that, right? Because you know I started off as a slave myself. And a very good slave I was. I had my eye on you, actually, because I figured if I could break you, make you loyal, you’d become one of my personal staff. Maybe I’d have you
