Banou is keep in a dwelling. Outside there guards standing there day and night. She can hear that outside there are children running around. It brings back memories of back in Li Jun's mansion. Her son will be running around with his brothers and sisters. Screaming and laughing. No matter where children are from, they are all the same. Including her own siblings who are bought up in the palace nursery.
Every evening, there are food bring in by a girl. She place them on the table and gesture Banou to eat them. Banou did not have the mood to eat so she ignore the food for two days. Only after the third day, she drink a bowl of soup and lay down on the bed. The fourth day, her captor brings in someone. They speak in their language in front of Banou and he grab her chin to force her head up to look at them. She see a young man with braids and beads around his hair with a high pony tail. His armour have a crescent of an eagle. His face have a silver mask on that cover his lower part of the face. Her captor's eyes are glister with happiness. He is getting rid of her and his lord is giving him a good price for her. Soon, he yank her face away and they talk further in the dweller at the table. She watch them talk and the young man occasionally turn back to look at her. He notice she is wearing the Han's style of clothes. However her face is not of a Chinese woman he knows off. In the end, that afternoon, Banou is drag out of the dweller, she scream as she fear for her life. She hear screaming from other woman as well. Some are beaten to silence. She fear she will be beaten as well she tear in silence and follow the instructions. Like sheep they are herd up into a cart. As the cart move off, those children come running out. They wave as the cart move away.
Once again Banou finds herself like in the same situation many years ago. She resign to fate that she should have been dead long ago. She had extended her life and live in a dream. It's time to wake up. Instead of noble women locking up in a cage. She finds herself with various races of women in it. The only familiar face she see is the girl who kidnapped her and attempt to bring her to Egypt and meet her brother. But they can't talk to each other. She is crying uncontrollably while Banou is numb at what she is feeling at that moment. Once the cart starts to move, she remember the past. Everything come flowing back to her and her branding hurts on her arm. As time goes by, Banou is sitting up and looking outside the greenery. The rest of the women some are still sobbing and some are asleep. The sun is going down soon. Her new owner is riding the horse watching Banou who is leaning on the pole that is holding up the canopy in the cart is staring blankly. He order his men to look for a nice ground to set up a temporary dwelling for the night.
The dwelling is set up very fast. The men cook and have their dinner. Later, the women are force out of the cart into the dweller. They are given food and drinks. Most of them eat in a hurry as they all did not eat in the morning. Only Banou eat slowly and chew her food with grace. She is not hungry, she eat as she fear they will beat her to eat. Thus she slowly chew it and look at her surrounding. Inside the dweller, there are five men excluding the young man who seems to be the leader. His mask is still on his face. He is staring at Banou. In the middle of the dweller, a small fire place is built up. the heat is trap inside thus they will survival the night with shelter.
Throughout out the night Banou did not sleep. She is given a rug to lay on. Some of the men choose a woman to sleep with so that the night will be warm. She pretend that she did not hear anything. In the middle of the night, the leader come into the dwelling, he lay down bed Banou. Even thou he is not doing anything, Banou is uncomfortable for another man to hug her to sleep. In the morning, the women are herd up into the cart, The dwelling is dismantle in a fast moment. Soon, they are ready to continue their journey. Banou look everywhere they are heading, there is no trees at sight. Occasionally a small hill appear out of no where. Everywhere she look at is green grass and small creeks. The women in the cart stop crying and have come to understand they have resign to fate like Banou. No amount of crying can help in the situation they are in. Most of them are Han Chinese. Only a few are Uyghurs. Only two Persians whom the new master couldn't understand who they are. Both of them have Han Chinese garments yet their faces are foreign along with high nose bridge. Unlike Chinese woman, their eyes are big and round. He personally like Banou's features. She is unlike the women he see everyday. She have a full lips which is thicker than Chinese girls. Her thick eye bows along with those long and thick lashes makes her eyes looks attractive. By the late afternoon, they have arrived at a huge campsite. When they all get off the cart, Banou see the flag at the top of the main gate. It have a symbol of an eagle. This must be his place. She watch the men inside all come running out to greet him. He is the master of this campsite.