Susan nods, with understanding clear in her fog-gray gaze. "It's hard, aye, when the heart of rule's far distant. There's always those who'd - who'd take advantage of it for their own foul purposes."
She's got as much reason to know as any, and more than most, after all.
Slavers. She shudders violently at the thought, at the very idea of the four of them being taken and chained and treated so, and clings to the fact that it's long past and had clearly all come right somehow.
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Susan nods, with understanding clear in her fog-gray gaze. "It's hard, aye, when the heart of rule's far distant. There's always those who'd - who'd take advantage of it for their own foul purposes."
She's got as much reason to know as any, and more than most, after all.
Slavers. She shudders violently at the thought, at the very idea of the four of them being taken and chained and treated so, and clings to the fact that it's long past and had clearly all come right somehow.
"He'd have been furious."