Chapter 109: Slave Seal
Primrose clenched her hands tightly on her lap. "Isn’t there anything I can do? Anything at all to break a slave seal and set someone free?"
"It’s incredibly hard to break ... maybe even impossible." He paused for a moment before adding, "She looks like she’s around eighteen, right?"
Primrose tilted her head. "You think she’s not actually eighteen?"
"Slave seals don’t just bind a person to their master. They also stop the body from aging," Salem explained. "That’s why most people are sealed when they’re around sixteen to eighteen."
"Most of them ... are girls?" Primrose asked hesitantly.
Salem gave a small nod. "Mostly young girls. And sometimes, young boys too ... if they’re considered ’beautiful.’"
Even without asking further, Primrose could already guess the reason behind it.
Many slaves were sold for horrible purposes. She’d heard stories about young girls being trained to please their masters, turned into perfect little dolls for someone else’s pleasure. Most of them were still underage.
Once they grew older and their youthful appearance faded, they were sold again, this time as housemaids. In worse cases, they were discarded or even killed for being ’no longer desirable.’
Primrose always had a bitter taste in her mouth whenever she saw nobles keeping slaves in their homes.
She used to wonder why they wouldn’t just pay people fairly to work in their homes. After all, they had more money than they could ever spend.