by GentlemanMariner
Well now, that was interesting. Clever way for ethical traders to get out of a dilemma while working within the system's rules and thwarting the bad guys. And also a great setup for your next work, which I assume will be Angie's sex-filled 30-day indenture. This is a superbly-written story, thanks for sharing it with us!
No more guesses on my part. I've been lucky and pleased with my two previous ones.
Keep up the excellent work!
(Angie will be a "happy slave".)
And yes, Angie will be a *very* happy slave :)
I really appreciate "superbly written" :D And sharing it is certainly my pleasure.
It was nice to write a sort of "happy ending" for sympathetic characters. My next story (a standalone before "Book 2") will focus on much less sympathetic characters...
The toxicology report should have come up sooner; they can't dock her points for a neurological condition that she doesn't have. It can't have been the first time someone was dropped off drugged in an attempt to fraudulently enslave someone, and even an outfit as sloppy as HCI would have protocols in place to screen blood for that.
Medically, the first question should be WHY did she pass out? Hadn't eaten in a day or two, drug use, neurological condition, what?
Everything else...even Brandon and Joanna's reactions...could be passed off as stalling for time with the three girls while they conduct an internal investigation. And devoxxed doesn't mean incapable of communication...anyone in a collar for grading could have their hands released and handed a pen and paper so that they could be questioned.
But why bother when they had most of the evidence already in hand against Magda?
What a wonderful turn of events. I'm really enjoying this. (While wondering what awaits me in the final chapter)