I brought the music over to Carol and asked how she was at sight-reading. She actually blushed and said she was pretty good. I told her to look at the... music for a minute while I turned on the vibraphone. I told everyone that when the girls came back over we could all do this one as it could use a bass line.When I brought Delta music for her to play with her violin, she was very excited. Trish was looking at me with a kind of sideways look as if she were being left out. I handed her some music. “Slave and servant sale is today usually. Go on into town and see if you can buy me one. Just a helper is really what I want. All these hungry girls are putting a strain on Esse. Don’t get a young one no matter how pretty she is.” She handed me a heavy purse. “Spend what you must,” she said with a smile. “no more than that.”So I rode on into the city using my well-forged passes and hitched my horse and light rig behind the shed where the slaves were held. The sale began right at noon with field. This must have broken whatever spell the class seemed to be under, as they all rushed out of the room and into the corridor. What they found will stay with Jack for the rest of his life, and when they look back on this in years to come, it will seem like the pivotal moment in Jacks existence.On the floor lay a thirteen year old girl, lying in a pool of her own blood with a teacher on top of her. He had his teeth locked onto the flesh of her neck, and was shaking her about like a rabid dog. Jack. I stuck my tongue out at them, goodriddance. The water was cold, but so refreshing. I loved swimming innatural water, and not chlorinated water. The bathtub was never bigenough to satisfy my yearnings. Connor soon followed suit, making sure to splash me as much as hecould. What an idiot, I thought splashing Connor as soon as heemmerged. I started laughing as he spit the water out of his mouth,"Why, you little," he shouted chasing after me. He snaked his armsaround my waist pulling me close to.