Oah, in Serindia no one hardly ever looks at me. Because I'm a girl, and half-caste... no one is easier to trick than people who think they're much too smart to be tricked by the likes of you. But here they don't make this mistake, and I have to keep thinking of new tricks all the time. And maybe I'm...

[She falls silent. The end of that sentence is horrifying to contemplate.]