[ Tomassen starts to check over the papers and Kaz drops his gaze, staring at the stack. There's a vague queasiness working its way up in his throat, as he remembers what exactly is in there. There's no way it's the entire picture—he feels like he barely scratched the surface. But what he had found had been enough to turn his stomach.
He's seen a lot of bad in his life, even in the brief time he'd been on the street. People bled out, the casual violence, the lying and cheating and stealing to get ahead. And certainly, was not naive to what happened behind closed doors in the seedier brothels.
It was entirely another thing to get more details in his search. To know the debt Inej had been in and just exactly how Heleen expected her to "work it off". How she'd been put in that position when she should've been attending secondary school. ]
She's nineteen. [ He'll let Tomassen do the math, the dates are there. Thinking about it again makes the nausea crawl further up. ]
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Date: 2024-08-18 10:02 pm (UTC)He's seen a lot of bad in his life, even in the brief time he'd been on the street. People bled out, the casual violence, the lying and cheating and stealing to get ahead. And certainly, was not naive to what happened behind closed doors in the seedier brothels.
It was entirely another thing to get more details in his search. To know the debt Inej had been in and just exactly how Heleen expected her to "work it off". How she'd been put in that position when she should've been attending secondary school. ]
She's nineteen. [ He'll let Tomassen do the math, the dates are there. Thinking about it again makes the nausea crawl further up. ]