Chapter 40

“I don’t know the whole planet, Ciara,” he laughed. “The administrators placed me in this village as a child and I have never lived another place.”

“Where was the slave auction? Is it on this world?” I asked hesitantly. “Do you know how I got there?”

“My brothers and I took a transport to the edge of the mountains. There is a place there our leaders allow the portals. We took the one that leads to the slave auction. It is in center space on a small neutral planet. We were told the portals can make a human sick if they are awake, so my brothers made sure you slept,” he told me.

He mused a bit on the second part of the question. “I have heard it is difficult to operate a portal on your home planet. They are often destroyed by Earth’s natural defense. The slavers must have found a place the defense wasn’t strong to take you.”

Christof sat for a moment and watched me looking around.

“I feel as though we should not have taken you,” he stated bluntly. “You sh