"If only that part was the same. I am used to living in a city where it's easy to get anything. I miss all my connections too, I was a man about town in Ketterdam, big fish in a small pond." To be fair, Jesper does fairly well for himself in Cadens too, he's hardly ignored here. He has a good business, merchants don't utterly despise him, he knows a lot about everyone in his area. He's the info guy, it's his natural instinct to be popular wherever he goes.
"Slavery is typically frowned upon, so they call it indentured servitude once you get to Ketterdam, but it's the same thing. Inej was sold to the Menagerie ... where pretty women are held regardless of age." The implication should be clear. Jesper doesn't often speak about it with her because obviously it's such a harsh subject. But Inej came out of it with a big heart despite all that, she's the strongest person he knows. "Kaz bought her contract and that's how she came to us." It's also why the three of them are so close. Their protective urges over one another are specific and made from trauma. "Back home though she recently became a pirate who specifically goes after slave ships, so at least there's that."
He thinks it is probably the sanest thing she could have done once given the freedom and power to make her own life. Rescuing slaves and changing the entire industry. People will soon be afraid to bring slaves anywhere near the area. Which is exactly how it should be. "As for wars made for that, we're going through one where the tank people are fighting in no small part to murder every one of my kind that exists. They want us extinct. Seems like people are terrible no matter where you go. But not all of them." There's them, after all. Not too terrible.
"Maybe I'll make the tank in the Horizon when we're feeling like making things we want to smash or drive over." That could be really fun, and since it's in a safe space, just good to get it all out. With her parents though he nods, he kind of gets that. Only his dad did believe in him. He was lucky that way.
"Not sure my mother would've approved of me becoming a criminal, but I do think she would have approved of me following my heart no matter what places that led. Hard to say though, she died when I was six."
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"Slavery is typically frowned upon, so they call it indentured servitude once you get to Ketterdam, but it's the same thing. Inej was sold to the Menagerie ... where pretty women are held regardless of age." The implication should be clear. Jesper doesn't often speak about it with her because obviously it's such a harsh subject. But Inej came out of it with a big heart despite all that, she's the strongest person he knows. "Kaz bought her contract and that's how she came to us." It's also why the three of them are so close. Their protective urges over one another are specific and made from trauma. "Back home though she recently became a pirate who specifically goes after slave ships, so at least there's that."
He thinks it is probably the sanest thing she could have done once given the freedom and power to make her own life. Rescuing slaves and changing the entire industry. People will soon be afraid to bring slaves anywhere near the area. Which is exactly how it should be. "As for wars made for that, we're going through one where the tank people are fighting in no small part to murder every one of my kind that exists. They want us extinct. Seems like people are terrible no matter where you go. But not all of them." There's them, after all. Not too terrible.
"Maybe I'll make the tank in the Horizon when we're feeling like making things we want to smash or drive over." That could be really fun, and since it's in a safe space, just good to get it all out. With her parents though he nods, he kind of gets that. Only his dad did believe in him. He was lucky that way.
"Not sure my mother would've approved of me becoming a criminal, but I do think she would have approved of me following my heart no matter what places that led. Hard to say though, she died when I was six."