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Following the death of her parents, a young woman is on her way to settle in with her sister when she learns despite what it says on her ticket, all emigrants get dumped on one world (supposedly picked by a vote but the election is fixed) and the one she is headed for is not the one her sister lives on.
She is assured by a smirking crewman that a pretty girl like her will have no trouble finding employment and sure enough in short order she is abducted, poisoned and used as the bait in a trap for a local businessman.
I don't know how old the girl is but apparently not old enough to live on her own. This makes the bit at the end where the rich guy offers her a trip to her sister's place and she turns it down because she thinks [sultry voice] "the opportunities for advancement" [/sultry voice] are better on his world pretty creepy.
She doesn't seem to be interested in letting her sister know where she is. She also does not seem all that concerned about the old lady who was expecting the girl to wait for her at the space port; the crooks grabbed the girl once the old lady was gone, so to the old woman it will be as if the girl just wandered off.
Following the death of her parents, a young woman is on her way to settle in with her sister when she learns despite what it says on her ticket, all emigrants get dumped on one world (supposedly picked by a vote but the election is fixed) and the one she is headed for is not the one her sister lives on.
She is assured by a smirking crewman that a pretty girl like her will have no trouble finding employment and sure enough in short order she is abducted, poisoned and used as the bait in a trap for a local businessman.
I don't know how old the girl is but apparently not old enough to live on her own. This makes the bit at the end where the rich guy offers her a trip to her sister's place and she turns it down because she thinks [sultry voice] "the opportunities for advancement" [/sultry voice] are better on his world pretty creepy.
She doesn't seem to be interested in letting her sister know where she is. She also does not seem all that concerned about the old lady who was expecting the girl to wait for her at the space port; the crooks grabbed the girl once the old lady was gone, so to the old woman it will be as if the girl just wandered off.
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