Lair's gaze swept over pairs of uneasy and terrified eyes. The cramped room was packed with over a hundred people, filled with a pungent smell that made Lair frown, but at the thought of the value of these guys, his frown quickly smoothed out.
"Hey, where are you planning to sell them?" Lair asked Harlow behind him. "Rhein?"
"Rhein is indeed the biggest buyer, but they don't want them all," Harlow squeezed into the room next to Lair, then blocked the children, not to protect them, but to show Lair that these goods belonged to him. "Especially lately."
"What's been happening lately?"
"Rhein just experienced a once-in-twenty-years famine, so they have enough resources themselves," Harlow grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth. "Even we go there to source goods and then sell them back."
"I see, I thought you were going to say Rhein only wanted boys."
"No, they want girls too."
"Rhein even wants girls? Why, tired of using the backdoor?"
