"Can you tell us what happened?" he asked, and wondered if she'd understand him.
Fortunately, after hundreds of years of amalgamation between cultures, a lingua franca had been formed. There were some local dialects, sure, but it was enough for them to communicate.
The young cat-woman nodded, rubbing her head against his shoulder while she spoke. "Bad men. Took Katnia and brothers. They send us deep human territory, they said."
Durgan's eyes darkened, looking in a direction where the mercenaries were still fighting monsters.
"They're selling her as a slave."
"What?" Finn gasped. "Is slavery still legal?" he asked. He remembered the goblins were practically slaves, but in name, they were not.
Then again… with people in power, how can there not be slaves? They just came in different forms and might have different names.
