"Wait a minute, I thought he had a whole thing against the idea of slavery," Olstenna whispered to Lythero. "Hell, he told us how he and his family got involved in a familial blood feud for the sake of a slave."
"Yes, but they don't know that," Lythero replied. "Now hush."
The three princes of the Erupting Dawn Empire reacted negatively to the idea of being ransomed back to their own family, but they showed varying degrees of negativity.
The Seventh Prince, Lauvanne, looked perturbed by the announcement but not surprised. If one were to listen to his mutterings at this time, they would hear him making calculations and plans on how to best eliminate whatever debt was to be accrued in a matter of months as opposed to years.
The Fourth Prince, Galban, looked positively aghast and outraged over the Kaijin Lord's words. Whether this was genuine distress, or he was using one of his strange aether arts to hyp himself up for another fight was unknown.
