"Awwww!" Kiss.

Kiss. "And then no one will try to talk me into keeping my children slaves so I can sell them if I need the money!"

"Did he say that? Wow."

"He didn't try very hard but - yeah. I guess I can see how someone - first doesn't free their baby because it won't make a difference to the baby and it's so expensive, and then doesn't free the kid because, hey, you never know, and it's still expensive, and..." Lean.

Snuggle. "Well, you are great so you freed her anyway."

"Yay!" says Cathei.

Pat. "You and your sister will both grow up all free!"

"Yayyyyy!" says Cathei and she plants a big messy kiss on Janna's head.

News comes from the east. They caught some terrorists and killed them; the terrorists claimed under torture there were other terrorists in this cave system but they didn't find any; they returned some escaped slaves for punishment; they won't know if they got them all until the attacks stop. Or don't.

Amait waits a while for a letter from her sister. There isn't a letter. 

"Do we know -"

"We wrote pretty regularly. Needed to be on the same page about -"

"Could've - had to flee, or gotten into a magic or something -"

"Sure she could have."

"If I were her I'd camp right by a magic but maybe she didn't have the option."

"Report didn't mention where they found them. I -"

And then she pulls Malare closer and starts crying. 

"We'll figure something out."

"There isn't. Anything. To figure out."

"We'll do it anyway."

"We'll abolish slavery. She wanted - she wanted to abolish slavery."

"Not good enough."

"I know. I - 

- she said if I let the go she'd stop, she'd - live with us for a while and stop and I'm sorry -"