Como a Sharp conseguiu os papéis de Teia?

Comandante Ironfist diz que ele prometeu a Kip que ele entregaria seus papéis para o magistrado, mas ele nunca parece ter sido capaz de tirá-los Andross Guile, o que significa que Guile os deu a Murder Sharp , mesmo que eles não pertençam mais a ele.

Sharp diz a Teia que se ela pressiona a questão (por exemplo, se ela for às autoridades alegar que ela é legalmente propriedade da Ironfist, não de Guile) que ele será arruinado:

Think not just about the fallout for you if you tell someone. Consider what happens to Commander Ironfist if he takes up your cause. Perhaps it would go well if I were to give your papers to any ordinary slaveholder. But if you pit Commander Ironfist against Andross Guile? Who do you think would win in that kind of fight? Ironfist is a good man, and he’ll go to his destruction for you, if you tell him.”

TLDR; Os papéis ainda estão no quarto de Kip / Teia quando eles saem para Ru, e Murder Sharp os rouba.

Kip ganhou então de Andross Guile em um jogo de Nove Reis em The Blinding Knife . Quando Kip tenta fazer com que Teia registre os papéis, libertando-a, ela se recusa:

"Hold on, before we do all that, I want you to take your papers. You keep on avoiding this. Look, all you have to do is sign them and we can take them to be registered tomorrow.

"Kip, don't be an idiot."

Eles então decidem esperar até a hora dos votos da Guarda Negra, então eles podem dividir o dinheiro que a Guarda Negra pagará pelo contrato de Teia.

Mais tarde, quando navegando para Ru, Kip pede ao Comandante Ironfist que cuide dele se algo acontecer com Kip:

The commander moved to address everyone, but Kip interjected, "Sir? Um, I know that after we were inducted, there wasn't really time to file papers and everything. I wanted to-I'm technically, or was technically, I guess? Teia's owner, anyway."

"Are you worried about your payout? Now?"

"No, sir!" I mean, if I die, sir, I want Teia to get it all." [...]

The commander looked at Kip for a long moment, then nodded. It would be taken care of.

Além disso, em The Broken Eye Ironfist diz:

Kip-Breaker-asked me to make sure your manumission papers go through. And I will. You know you're one of the best inductees. You know the Blackguard is hurting for good people. But it's your choice. When I was your age, I took an oath because I was expected to, not because I wanted to or thought it was right. I won't do that to you, Teia.

A implicação é que os papéis ainda estão na sala de Kip, esperando para serem arquivados. Então, mais tarde, Teia está a caminho do quarto de Kip (e dela) para pegar os papéis e arquivá-los:

Staying on the lift when the inductees got out, Teia left instead at the level of Kip's room. The clerks had been too busy in the days immediately before the fleet left to do any normal business. That had meant Teia and Kip couldn't file her paperwork.

[...]

The key turned easily in the lock, and Teia opened the door and stepped inside quickly.

É quando nos encontramos com Sharp, que foi ao quarto pegar os papéis e esperar por ela.