Chapter 146

On an isolated corner, a group of young men sat on some freighting crates outside the loading dock of a small warehouse. One stopped me in my tracks. He was golden, his skin, his hair, his eyes! For a second, I mistook him for the slaver that captured me, Devari. He and his comrades all looked rugged, hardened and well muscled. They sat blissfully on the crates without a care in the world. They seemed to be the only things calm in this active city. As we walked by, the lankiest one pointed at us. The rest of the boys turned to look at us. They scanned us from head to toe, quietly talking back and forth between themselves. "Mercury..." I asked quietly. "Yeah?" He responded. "What's up with those kids over there?" I asked, inconspicuously pointing at them. "Typical local bad boys... They've obviously banded together to stab each other in the back at one point in the future. They're more of a threat to each other than a threat to us." Mercury sighed. "Wow..." I said completely taken aback