From Williamsburg she moved to Fredericksburg were she took another girl. The two girls weren't really being a problem, she seem to had convinced them that they were indeed sea princess and that they were going to return to their original home. She moved with them to Atlantic City, from where she kidnapped another girl. Marion reached the city of New York at midday, she went out and started sight viewing. She couldn't believe her eyes. It was like being in Rapture but without the water. One could walk among the buildings but what Marion really wanted to do was climb the buildings. She could imagine herself climbing them, jumping from one to another enjoying the sight of the whole city.

She was sure of one thing, she would had enjoyed living in that city. She wondered if her parents would have lived in there if they hadn't gone to Rapture, yet she would never know. She scouted the city and found a school from the other side of the street she saw several little girls and decided to followed one, luckily for her the girl lived near the Hudson River. She saw where the apartment was, she would have to move the Bathysphere to be closer to the girl's house, Marion didn't want to be running with her through the entire city. It was as big as Rapture and although she could easily run through it, she didn't wanted to call any attention. Marion sighed, she would had to move it in the night.

She took the girl on August 12, well technically speaking it was already the thirteen since it was one in the morning when Marion disappeared with the girl in arms. She appeared not far from the apartment then she ran as fast as she could to the port where she had left the Bathysphere. She again disappeared in a white cloud of smoke and appeared inside of the bathysphere. She took the girl to the room where the others were sleeping and leave her there. Tomorrow in the morning she would have to make her believe that she was a princess. Marion remained awaken most of the night thinking how should she convince the new little girl that she was a princess.

"Awake up! Awake up! There is a new girl in here! And she screaming and crying…" said one of the girls.

"I'm hungry, I want something for breakfast!" said another girl.

Marion blinked several times until her eyes adjusted to the light; she turned and saw the two girls looking straight at her. "What…?" she asked as she rubbed her eyes and got up.

Indeed one of them, the last one that she had brought into the bathysphere, was crying. Marion sighed and knelt next to her.

"Are you alright princess?" she asked in a caring way.

"I want my mommy…." The little girl said while sobbing. "I want my MOMMY!" she began to raise her voice. Marion looked around quickly and looked at the other girls, they were starting to get nervous, what would mean that they could burst into cries any time soon, she need to act quickly to stop the others for crying.

"Look princess, I need you to listen to me really careful," the little girl stared at her with hater in her eyes, "Your mommy is going to reach us in your new home very soon…"

"I… I want my…"

"Princess doesn't cry, they don't look pretty when they are crying…"

"But I'm not a princess…" the little girl sobed.

Marion laugh, "You are indeed a princess, and I'm here to take you to your kingdom," the little girl looked at her with curiosity. Marion knew that she would need to play well her cards or it could mean other really tedious voyage. "Those persons that you thought were your parents, they weren't, they were an evil witch and wizard the kidnapped you…"

The little girl pushed her away and began to cry again for her mommy. Then all the others follow, Marion gave a growl of frustration, quickly went to her room change herself, make a breakfast for the girls and disappeared from the bathysphere. She was sure of one thing, she couldn't take another trip like the last one, with all the girls screaming and crying, no, her sanity wouldn't allow her to stay there.

Marion was sitting on a bench of a park that seems that a lot of people used, she wondered if it was of the size of Arcadia or even bigger. She had both of her hands behind her head and was wondering how many more girls she would need. She had four onboard at least she would need three more, she sighed. She concluded that she wasn't made for that job, but it seems that Dr. Lamb thought differently. One of the good things was that she wouldn't have to continue with the princess stuff, she could just leave them there, and enjoy the city herself.

The days were starting to pass quickly and she had just take two more girls, six in total, just one girl of the last two that she brought aboard seem happy to be there. Marion had been curios of why the girl didn't cry like the others and was actually glad to be there instead that with her mommy, but decided to give not any thought, not that she didn't care, but… She didn't want to bond with any of those girls, Marion could still remembered the angry words of Chantal, telling her that she had lied and that she hate her. No, she didn't want to feel like that again, she would endure the loneliness. She was just a protector, not a real big sister. She simply curled up in her bed. She cleaned quickly the tears that had rolled down her cheek. She sighed.

"A protector" she whispered to herself, "a guardian,… no bonds, nor anything else… just a gatekeeper… just that…" she stared at the ceiling of the submarine. Repeating to herself that sentence over and over again, until she fall asleep.

Marion was simply walking throw the city of New York, she was sure of one thing she will really miss that city, it had everything that anyone would actually need. She simply was enjoying the last time she would be there, since that night she would be moving to Rhode Island and then to Massachusetts to finished taking girls for Dr. Lamb and the Family, a strange sensation came from that thought but decided to give it no thought.

Marion was simply standing in a corner waiting for the cars to stop when she stared at a newspaper stand and one of the lead that a newspaper had called her attention. She opened slightly the eyes in surprise and fear. She read quickly the headline of the news and ran quickly her eyes through the article, she started walking away when she heard someone calling from behind.

"Hey young lady! You just can't take the newspaper like! You have to pay for it!" said the man of the stand. Marion came out of her daydream and stared at the man.

Pay for it? She wondered, couldn't she simply take it and leave? Then she suddenly remembered that she wasn't in Rapture. She quickly search in her pockets for a bit of money and handed it to the man, who, received it in a grumpy way.

She couldn't take her eyes off that article, she read it a hundred times, and still couldn't really understand it. How this could have happened? She wondered, she had been extremely careful to make sure no one saw her. But yet the article… it spoke about the recent kidnappings of the girls and the sights of the red lights in several cities. God, if Dr. Lamb would know about this, she would be in serious problems. Marion simply bit her lip.

"What I'm going to do… if Dr. Lamb finds out…" she simply whispered to herself. She re-read the article again and sighed and closed her eyes in frustration. This was so wrong.

She looked for the last time at the article.

"You shouldn't be worry about that dear," said an old woman that had sat down next to her. Marion eyed her quickly and looked at her with surprise.

"What?"

"Well dear, although most of us are worry about this, a young lady like you shouldn't get worry, unless you have a little sister. But do you have one dear?" she asked. Marion blinked several times and shook her head.

"Well then, you shouldn't worry about this, let the police handle it, because after all what do a young fine lady like you have to do with this kind of horrible events…" she said and stared feeding some of pigeons.

Marion couldn't stop herself but smile in an evilly way, "Yes you are right ma'am. What would someone like me have to do with those kidnappings…"she rose from the bench and walked away smiling in a cruel way, because after all no one would ever suspected about someone like her.