"Yeah," Olan agreed, running a hand over his face. "I wonder how many lives Lansky destroyed with that poison he peddles. Wonder how many mothers've l...ost their children to addiction?" Enough that he likely deserves what he's getting. Is he talking?" Yeah, he spilled everything," said Olan, flipping a small notebook closed."Did he give up Oleander's organization?" He'd give up his own mother. Brick's finishing up now."Niko splayed his fingers, scooping his hair back from his forehead. He knew. “Some were sold to sailors looking for crew or cabin boys. Others were sold as household servants to people where the institution was practiced. The woman, her name is Vandra, was only six years old when she was sold to a family in Belan. She said they treated her kindly but they still made certain she knew she was a slave. They did permit her to keep the small bundle of documents that she carried out of the castle with her. She cannot read or write so they felt it was of no matter if she kept. Ethan split his time between the ranch and with his mother in Fountain. He was going on fifteen and was considered a young man but he still wanted to spend time with his mother. He had already saddled Balin and Sandy for Dillon and Elizabeth and hitched them to a corral post."Been waitin on y'all most of the morning," Ethan said with a grin.The three waved good bye to Oso and started their ride to Fountain. They arrived in town in time to meet Eleanor for lunch. "I have to get back to the. There’ll be plenty of time later for you to work for money, but it’s the same as with children, first you need education.”“But I am not a child, Linda,” he said plaintively. “I am a man, full in maturity. And each day I grow that much older, and yet I may not be a man and work as men do. I must find my place in this world, though I do not know that such a place exists for me.”“Oh, a place exists,” I told him. “And right now that place is here, with me, learning about a world you still don’t.