Summary

In Chapter 31 Allen goes to Duma’s shrine to buy a trokosi. Readers learn that he gains access to priests by lying and saying his family has suffered misfortunes and that he has a 9-year-old daughter he wants to sell. Duma has heard of Allen and Taylor before. He asks what Allen will do with the girl once he has bought her. Allen responds that they educate the girls, ease them back into society and find them work. Why? Duma asks.

“Because our god has asked us to do this,” Allen responds (173).

Duma considers Allen to be merely a garbage collector. He says he will sell Allen one of his girls who has lost her mind and stopped eating for one hundred cendi and Allen’s watch. Allen is buying Abeo.

In Chapter 32, Duma drags Abeo to the shore of the river and...