Paloma has never met her employer. She gets told, every day, by different men, where to pick up new badgers, and where to go for payment. She just shows her badge- green metal, and with a number etched- and she gets her penny for the day.
Paloma has also never ever thrown a badger away. Not even if she had a single pamphlet left, and there was no-one around. The really lazy girls don't get their silver penny, and are thrown out at the end of the day, but the other girls chatter about sometime giving a man two, and making it look like you gave him one, or dropping them by accident, or stashing them in a crevice when you pass close by a building.
Paloma doesn't do that.
She knows that LADY ERIAPE is watching. Not all the time, perhaps, but sometimes. Otherwise LADY ERIAPE wouldn't find out, when the lazy girls cheat.
She has a job.
And then the man said that there were riots coming, and she felt- scared and alone-
and then LADY ERIAPE spoke INTO HER HEAD
and told her what to do