Sally’s POV

I remembered seeing them stacked along the barge before the guards began loading the captives.

Each one carried a red wax seal stamped with the image of a blade. I had never seen that symbol before, and I couldn’t remember seeing it on any of the Hawthorne properties.

Whoever owned those crates had a mark of their own.

Perhaps it belonged to the people collecting the prisoners. Perhaps it was the symbol of an organisation behind the trade.

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