045 - Video

[whattheytellyou]

[Sarah is looking...pretty good, actually. Rested, cheerful. More like her old self again.]

Interesting what a little "me" time will do for you.

[She holds up a battered field notebook to emphasize what she's discussing.]I've been aboard since January 4th. I was looking back through my old logs and doing considerable thinking about the

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[feels_no_love]

Are you certain that you wish to know?

[whattheytellyou]

Do you know, one of the greatest factors preventing the onward march of science is the fear of answers we don't like. Evolution, the creation of the universe, cloning -

[She catches herself.]

Yes. I wouldn't have asked if I didn't want to know.

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[feels_no_love]

I do not remember my childhood before the age of ten. From ten to seventeen I was held prisoner by the Turks, who used everything from persuasion, to mind-games, to beatings, to torture, to try and convert me to their ways. Their ways being Islam and the attending-to of the Sultan's cock.

I did not convert or concede, no matter what they did to me. But others fell. My own brother became the Sultan's willing catamite and a betrayer of his family.

I asked if you really wanted to know because Armand could not handle this little revelation and immediately changed the subject. [His disgust at this is plain.]

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[whattheytellyou]

Atrocities happen. It's not right to turn a blind eye to them, or try to hide from them.

What happened to you at seventeen?

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[feels_no_love]

Tell it to my Warden. He seems to think that because it happened to me, it does not count.

At seventeen my freedom was parlayed in a treaty. My brother was freed as well, but chose to stay with his captors.

[private]

[whattheytellyou]

Your warden's Armand, correct?

What did you do with your freedom?

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[feels_no_love]

Yes.

Once I was free I determined to become Voivode upon my father's death. My every effort was directed toward that end. Had I been in power I would never have allowed my own sons to rot in a Turkish jail for nearly a decade.