1. What is the significance of the police officers glasses? Compare the effect of these lenses and the window of his car near the end to his opinion of the townspeople and barbarians.
2. Discuss the irony on page 114 when the guard describes the barbarians and says "their way is to creep up behind you and stick a knife in your back" since clearly, they have been doing nothing of the sort and the Empire invaded them without warning.
3. Why does the magistrate have a hard time seeing the girls face when she is the one who is supposedly blind?
4. Why does the magistrate find it necessary to risk everything in order to bring the girl back to "her people"? What is he proving, and to who is he proving it?
5. Why does the magistrate call himself enslaved on page 48, when in reality he has full control over the girl he is living with?
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