Section 15: Chapter 23 Summary

Nathaniel is there to conduct business, so he is surprised when Cathy speaks to him but still willing to talk. Grateful for his companionship, Cathy asks him to help her kill Daryl since she has no choice besides dying here. Nathaniel points out that she could have asked for help escaping, but Cathy argues, "He killed my parents and my brother. I want to see him dead" (page 240). Though Daryl is absent, his room elicits unpleasant memories as Turquoise paces restlessly and rifles through his desk, but she palms her knife before he opens the door. Hesitating, Daryl notes he thought she would find a way back because a slave without a master is lost. Recalling how Daryl had told her he owned her and she did not want to make him mad, Turquoise had been introduced to the concept that...