Chapter 9 Summary

Azucena is going to help is Cuquita, who is fleeing her violent husband. He has been abusing and beating her for some time, but now he has turned his violence on Cuquita's grandmother and Cuquita has had enough. She wants Azucena to take her and her grandmother in for a few days and Azucena reluctantly agrees because she and Cuquita have little in common. The invasion of the two women plus Cuquita's parrot and the things she has brought with her are annoying to Azucena, but she squelches her annoyance and tries to help.

Cuquita has no Televirtual, a sort of 23rd-century television set but with enhancements, because she can't afford one. The news shows on Televirtual transport the viewer to the scene of the newscast. Cuquita is watching a soap opera when a newscast breaks in showing Isabel visiting Korma. Cuquita wakes...