SADE

Maybe I've been wrong about this man. Perhaps spending eight years out of my twenty-four years has made me think that all men are monsters.

I was still growing when I was taken. The only men I knew then were the boys in our village and the elders, so I didn't know many men before I was snatched away and thrown into a world I knew nothing about, a world where the men were never gentle, always lied and deceived, and always seemed to want to cause me pain.

And that was why I thought Mr. Varkas was just like all those men, but maybe I was terribly wrong....