Volume I · Aboard the COMMERCE
Lass
Lass has just arrived from Scotland with her family, and everything new around her makes her anxious and shy. She is cautious and slow to open up to others.
She watches quietly, hoping to make friends with other young people. She is as much a victim of circumstance as those brought from Africa. She understands little, and she longs for a normal village life.
Lass’s challenge
Can she find a normal life when the people in charge seem impossible to escape?
For today’s reader
Oppression can be felt anywhere that authority seems inescapable and stifling. Is searching for a normal life enough?