“It is not an unreasonable price,” Master Damien answered.

After the Last group finished with their questions I was told to lay still. I had the sensation of motion as my little floating pad was pulled into the sunlight.

As they pulled me upstairs I thought about what I had done. If more Paterians were interested in humans, more would be kidnapped. If I had been thinking, I would have done things so they wouldn’t want human slaves. The idea upset me.

“Tell me, Ciara,” Master Damien said from beside me, as we went up the stairs.

I knew I couldn’t lie to him anymore, not unless I got better at it. A large part of me didn’t want to upset him, for reasons I didn’t clearly understand, but that didn’t mean other humans would want to be enslaved.

“It will make you mad and you won’t understand, Master Damien,” I told him honestly.

figured we

to sit up. “Tell me what you were thinking just then and don’t give me any

me into the

“If I did a good job your cousins will want more human slaves and the slavers will kidnap more

until I finished my statement. I blushed deeply,

you were trained to, every time,” Master Evan said

slaves or

said. “If we do not want them, they just

what you mean when

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Kein told me. “You

furiously, I hadn’t meant to

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