It was just before sunset two nights later when Kristin, who had been studying in ABD's comfy living room, happened to look up and see something shiny glinting in the bushes outside. Immediately she dropped her book and went to get Sasha, ABD's Sergeant-at-Arms, who was the only other person Miss White had told about the pictures.
After quickly conferring, they went outside through the rear kitchen door and out the back gate, then circled around to approximately where Kristin had been looking. The sun had just dipped below the horizon, throwing ABD's front garden into deep shadow. Moving stealthily, Kristin and Sasha spread out about 10 yards, maintaining visual contact as they crept quietly through the grounds they knew so well.
And finally their efforts were rewarded. Beneath an apple tree they saw a woman with a camera, its long zoom lens pointed toward ABD House. She did not appear to see them, so they moved slowly closer, then in one unified motion, they leapt. Each seized one of the woman's arms, and Sasha quickly produced handcuffs and cuffed her hands behind her back; Kristin just as quickly gagged her with a cloth. Together they maneuvered the struggling prisoner into ABD House through a side door that led directly to the basement. There, after they secured the prisoner's handcuffs to a chain set into the wall, Sasha stood guard as Kristin went to fetch Miss White.
When Kristin returned with Alexis White, Sasha was staring down at the bound girl. She was about 21, with long brown hair tied back in a ponytail and thick black glasses covering big blue eyes. Sasha looked up at Miss White and said, "Can I talk to you for a minute?" Miss White nodded and she and Sasha moved out of earshot as Kristin kept an eye on the prisoner.
"I know this girl," said Sasha. "She's been in a few of my classes. Usually she's a total, like, goody two shoes, teacher's pet type."
"Do you know her name?" asked Miss White.
Sasha thought for a second. "I wanna say, like, Joanie? Jamie? I'm not sure."
"Well," said Alexis White with a steely glint in her eyes, "she'll talk, eventually."