Chapter Six
AFTER THE MEETING BROKE UP, Thayu and I walked back to our room.
Emi had just woken up and stood in her cot chewing the top rim. I picked her up. She ran her little hands over my breast pocket, babbling.
“She wants those keys,” I said. “Leisha has them.”
“It’s unbelievable how determined she is to get them. I wonder where she got that determination.”
She wriggled in my arms, extending her hands to the floor. I put her down on her feet. She walked a few steps on her bare feet, but tripped over the hairy rug and crawled into the bathroom.
“I think she got her relentless energy from you,” I said.
Thayu smiled. Sometimes I thought she looked a little older, but her hair was still perfectly black with a peacock sheen.
Her face turned serious. “I wanted to speak in private be
