Section 8: Chapters 15-17 Summary

Emiko is happy with the knowledge that there is a place for New People in Chapter 15, but she fears asking Raleigh about the village. Due to her training, she feels revulsion at the thought of having no one to serve as she imagines the village. Finally confronting Raleigh and telling him that she wants to go to the New People village in the north, Emiko offers to earn her passage since it is expensive, and Raleigh agrees to send her when she has earned enough to pay for the bribes, warning her that she will need to offer something more than regular sex since he has plenty of girls for that. When Mai tells Hock Seng that two employees are ill in Chapter 16, he arranges to have the men sent to different hospitals so the potential virus will not...