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| 13 | 4 | Nela, like most of the View more quotes about others">others at the baths, could talk of little but the startling disappearance, and presumed abduction, of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, the proud, spoiled daughter of the Administrator of the City. |
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| 13 | 1 | Mip "I do not see how it could have happened," Nela was saying, bending over me as I lay sleepily on my stomach on the heavy striped piece of toweling, about the size of a blanket, her strong, dutiful hands rubbing the oils of the bath into my body. |
| 13 | 2 | "The daughter of Minus Tentius Hinrabius, if none other," said she, "should be safe". |
| 13 | 3 | I grunted, not too concerned. |
| 13 | 4 | Nela, like most of the others at the baths, could talk of little but the startling disappearance, and presumed abduction, of Claudia Tentia Hinrabia, the proud, spoiled daughter of the Administrator of the City. |
| 13 | 5 | It seemed she had vanished from the central cylinder, in those portions of it devoted to the private quarters of the Administrator and his family and closer associates, almost under the very noses of Taurentian guardsmen. |
| 13 | 6 | Saphronicus, Captain of the Taurentians, was reportedly, and understandably, beside himself with frustration and rage. |
| 13 | 7 | He was organizing searches of the entire city and surrounding countryside, and gathering all possible reports which might bear on the case. |