“Do you want to know what it’s like in the brothels? The way they’ll starve you if you don’t perform? The way they like it if you fight, because they can be as rough as they want? Do you want to know what it was like to have men and women from the palace—men and women I once knew—hand over a palmful of coins to have me on my knees? Or on my back, or bent over a rail—”
