This is how the trouble started in Ruethna, Laura rescued an escaped slave who call herself "Pig" according the the translation token from being beaten to death by Samus the bath keeper for stealing coins from his customers, she hadn't stole much but she was obviously a slave & the worst he could get was a fine for property damage if her owner complained & Samus hated thieves almost as much as he hated the people who used his boathouse as a pleasure house but they paid & where freemen & the thieving scrap of a kid hadn't & wasn't. When Laura confronted him, Samus took one look at her glittering Ebony jade armour & being a bully decided if the dragon blood & her escort wanted a bloodied child they could have her.
So Laura took the child & cleaned it up dressed it and made sure its wounds where dressed & the child was grateful but couldn't understand Laura asked her companions but they though they praised her compassion where hard folk form a hard world & did not understand. Besides most except for Fran who was busy getting drunk where too involved in raising a mercenary army to crush the revolt in Ifonaris
to be continued....
Ginger
