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”Yes, Prince?” Long Kue answered on the other line.
”There's an accident at the construction site.”
”Mm. I know. Nico informed me but Butler Zeu said to not disturb you for the next few hours. So, I haven't reported to you. My apologies.” Long Kue explained.
There was a brief pause. ”Um... Prince... When the two men fell to the ground, Yu Sha was right on the spot they fall onto. Apparently, she injured her shoulder when the men fell onto her shoulder. I think that must be coordinated by her in order to not arouse interest from others.”
”Most likely. She's never revealed her ability in broad daylights or when a lot of people are around. But I feel that she doesn't have bad intentions.” Hue Chi speculated.
Prince Hue Chi hung up and put the phone on silent mode, after which he proceeded to flip the book and start from the beginning.
At the opening of the book, the author, Hli Ja, wrote of her life in the brothel, running errands for her older sister. She spoke of how her sister forced her to learn literacy and emphasized the importance of knowledge.
Hue Chi read aloud sentence by sentence, page by page. Each paragraph was short but detailed enough to know what happened. The first page started early on of the author's life.
”One afternoon, my sister asked me to run an errand for her. This was the first time she gave me a task. I was happy she relied on me and ran to the store to get what she instructed me to buy, papers and ink. The next morning, my sister woke me up early and taught me how to write. She was thrilled when I wrote my first letter. I have never seen my sister that happy and her smiles encouraged me to want to learn more.”
”One late morning, some children were playing down the block. I wanted to join as the game looked fun. But, they yelled at me when I approached them, sneering at me with dirty looks. They cursed for me to get away, that my sister was a dirty person, she worked in a dirty place. If I'm with them, they'll get contaminated. Those words angered me. Without realizing it, my body moved on its own and punched a child on the face. Later that day, the children's parents came and yelled at my sister. I got my sister in trouble but I will never forget the disdain faces of those parents.”
Hue Chi flipped onto the next page. He noticed that early in the book, there wasn't really any concept of time, but seems like recalled memories written down at a much later time after the event happened.