Perhaps a revolutionary group or someone else with those types of ideals and motives would usually try to deal with unjust places in their own way, but not everyone was able to do the same.
Sometimes they could not act so openly against those they had differing values with who would especially be on their list of targets that they felt like they needed to do something about.
It was better to strike targets who would not expect them to suddenly target them when they least expected it, and those who were more predictable, rather than a group that was always on the move and so difficult to predict their next actions.
If they had to take some form of action, then it would not be very well prepared, and they would not have much justification for it, even if they knew the carnival was a bad place.
All they could do was to send someone to try to save those whom they could, using what money they had available to free those people from much worse fates.
While the carnival did look quite clean on the surface as it acted as a cover for their shady operations, not many truly knew the depth of what they were involved in.
Only those who suffered from them knew the truth, or those who frequently had dealings with them.
Even many of the more favoured adopted children who were able to keep a place for themselves as a part of the regular acts in the carnival were not so knowledgeable about what was really going on.
If they were knowledgeable about it, then they were looking the other way for their own sake, or they were in on it in some way.
What others were unaware of was how deep everything went beneath the surface of their regular travelling carnival activities, where they travelled from place to place.
The only person to know more about everything they were involved in was Tiffany, who had often overheard their discussions about what they would do upon reaching the next city where they would perform.
There were always nightly discussions concerning what would be done with setting up yet another bidding sale for one of her siblings who had either started to reach an age that was within the regular selling range or who had been put forward for their growing worth.
There would be certain people who would escape those rules as a result of them being too needed for the carnival acts to maintain their cover and keep their operations running, but anyone else would be considered for being sold off.
If there was someone to take the place in one of the acts for another, then it would be considered for them to be sold off one day, but if they reached a certain age, then their worth would drop significantly, and they would be far less worth selling.
Most buyers were usually looking for those who were still in their youth and were not yet independent, so that they could still be kept legally under their control as a result of their possessing rights over them and being their legal guardians.
If they were over the age where they still required legal guardianship, then they would be far more difficult to keep control over, especially if they were being brought into certain environments that would make them wish to escape and start their own life quickly.
What was usually discussed was how the carnival would proceed with raising and nurturing certain children who were adopted to raise their value further, so that higher grades of humans could be sold off once they were done with them.
Their whole operation was more like a higher grade of slave trade or human trafficking, where the products being sold off would undergo various forms of training and nurturing to raise their prices.
As a result of that type of criminal enterprise, the carnival had connections to many orphanages all around the country that were willing to give up children quite easily for the right price or various reasons without going through the proper procedures.
There existed many orphanages that were simply understaffed or underfunded in many ways, so those created major problems for them and made them more susceptible to bribes and other things that could grant them a way to survive and thrive.
Babies and young children who were less favoured in those orphanages and those who were not likely to be adopted by visiting potential parents were usually seen as more of a burden to such people.
If they did not get sent to a family and help to get a nice donation or other things that could improve the situation for the orphanage, then they were just seen as another mouth to feed and another drain on their funds.
Those types of children were usually the ones that the orphanages wished to get rid of most of all so they became easy targets for the carnival.
Tiffany had heard several discussions related to the various contacts which her adoptive parents had who they had continued to keep contact with and planned to continue their business with them.
It was usually around those times that her adoptive parents came back with a new child who would be integrated into a part of the carnival where they would be nurtured depending on their potential.