The Concerns of a Parent

Crossing the reception area of the Manta Carlos's police station, a place Celeste was familiar with, she politely asked the officer in attendance if she could file a report and maybe speak to a police officer regarding her concerns about what she had witnessed at the community centre yesterday afternoon.

Being told to take a seat and that a police officer would be with her shortly, Celeste did exactly that. Sitting herself on one of the hard chairs in the reception area, she calmly tried to recall the whole weird and the very worrying incident she had seen between a strange "business" woman called Penelope and one of Starlight's newer and more innocent students.

A young and eager student, who had managed to remind her just how much her own children (or Roldan's daughter) might fall prey to such an individual, especially since, as a teacher and a mother, she was pretty sure that a language charm or extra classes would have served the same as the wish had and not put the girl in such a questionable, if not illegal, situation.


@Romi

Celeste got to her feet when she saw Sargent Genovese. She was relieved to see it was him she could address her concerns to. She was aware the island had different rules than where she was from, but even Roldan had encouraged her to at least talk to someone from the station if she was concerned.

"Yes, that's right," she nodded politely in answer to his question, "to both questions actually," she clarified.

"You see, I stopped for a moment at the community centre on my way home from work yesterday," she started. "And, well, I saw something that was concerning between, "here she paused simply because she didn't know what to call Penelope, "I suppose she's called "a wish granter" and an underaged student..." she told Angelo.

Glancing at Angelo gratefully, Celeste took a seat across the table from him.

"Well," Celeste started, "There is a new student at the academy, their name is Azalea," she explained, having also had a peek at her school file before coming to the police station just to make sure of her concerns were real.

"She made a pact or a wish, something with Penelope..." here Celeste couldn't quite remember her name and so dug around in her purse for the business card she was handing out at the community centre. "Pernicious," she continued handing the card to Angelo.

"And in exchange, she agreed to ten years of servitude," she said with a very worried look.

"Azalea is only 15," Celeste assured Angelo, "I double checked with the school before I came down here."

"The nature, if I remember right, was Penelope helped Azalea speak English immediately, assuring everyone in the centre at the time, that Azalea wouldn't be able to achieve such a feat on her own," this claim made Celeste frown because it was, in her opinion, unsubstantiated," in exchange for Azalea's servitude for the next ten years."

"I truly don't think Azalea quite understood the nature of the trade, and quite honestly, even if she did, a wish should not require something so dire in return - at least not something like that," she added, thinking of her own children and fearing that they might fall victims to such a thing.

"So basically, one can sell themselves into slavery and not even be aware of it, or see it as wrong," Celeste groaned, extremely disappointed at the law.

"That's mad especially since the island just rescued a bunch of nekos from a life of servitude... but they allow this to happen," she said shaking her head.

"What if the minor has no clue as to what is happening, no real understanding of what they have done and are not even aware they can break the contract?" she asked, clearly worried.