Chapter Six
REALITY KICKS INIn fact, the first week or two wasn’t so bad. After all, she had worked in the na in various capacities during the school holidays since she was about eight. She knew all the jobs, the phases of the harvest and the ways that the workers used to keep themselves amused. She also didn’t have to get up so early, she had an extra hour in bed, and she could spend all day with her real parents. Surely, they should all be plus points, she kept telling herself. Not only that but her parents had promised to pay her.
“Telak, since you will be working for a living now, and not costing us anything, your father and I think it only proper that we pay you”, her mother had announced one afternoon on the table in the na. “Isn’t that right, Paw?”
“Yes”, he had agreed. “You will
