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slowly.
    “And this is Alaina, the only human on the ticket today, arriving all the way from my home planet, Earth,” Rua was saying.
    Then Alaina realized that not only was the Errai girl looking at her, but all of the aliens in the room were. She did her best to stand still and promptly lowered her eyes, wanting to seem meek and obedient. She couldn’t be elegant in it like Yfia, but perhaps if she at least looked harmless enough, it would inspire the other Jiayi to want to purchase her.
    “Alaina has no Arena training,” Rua said. “But as you can see, she is a very fine specimen all the same. This color, her hair, is blond . Very desired on Earth. She would make an excellent bed slave.”
    Fuck you, Rua , Alaina thought, jaw tightening. What a prick.
    “Please enter your bids for each of our offerings today on your tablet, and once the auction has closed, your treasures will be released to you.”
    The rear door opened, then, and the attendants returned. One of them took Alaina’s arm and walked her into the corridor, but she managed to throw a fierce glare over her shoulder at Rua as she went. He looked back at her, smug.
    The attendant pulled her one way down the corridor, and Alaina realized that another attendant was taking Yfia in the opposite direction.
    “Yfia?” Alaina called, alarmed. Was this it? Would they ever see each other again?
    Yfia looked down her arm at Alaina and smiled. “Best prayers for you, human child,” she said. “I hope I see you again.”
    And then Yfia’s attendant led her around a corner, and she was gone.
     

Chapter Four
    Alaina was placed in a similar room to where the auction had happened. Carpeted, with furniture low to the floor, and a pair of wide windows. It was like a lounge, Alaina thought. Without Yfia to explain it, Alaina was rather at a loss. Maybe this was where slaves waited to serve new masters. Or where people just kind of hung out after a bath. She had no idea. But once the attendant left, she was too anxious to sit.
    The silent auction meant she had no idea who had bid on her, if anyone. She had however long it took them to tally the bids, to determine who had won what, and then she was going to be passed to a master. And would that dog Rua manipulate it somehow? Would he make certain she ended up with someone awful or was he more interested in the cash? Whatever form cash took in space.
    When she got bored of pacing, she sat down on one of the couches. It was soft, but it wasn’t even a full foot off the floor. Everything was so low to the ground, the sofas and the tables, it was like the old paintings of Ancient Rome Alaina remembered studying in high school. Couple that with the Arena and she briefly wondered if she’d traveled back in time, too. But, no. It made sense, she reasoned, that if there were ancient alien cultures and they’d been to Earth again and again, stealing people or whatever, that some of their culture would have rubbed off on early humans. So, she reasoned, it wasn’t that this place was reminiscent of Ancient Rome, it was that Ancient Rome had been reminiscent of this place. Insane.
    Finally the door opened, and Alaina shot up to her feet. Captain Rua strolled in, holding the door open for one of the aliens. To Alaina’s utter dismay, it was not one of the Jiayi.
    But to her equal surprise, it was the Errai girl.
    “Your grace,” Rua said, nodding to Alaina. “I present your prize. Look down when your domina is present, slave.”
    Alaina blinked and looked down, but felt her temper rise at that. She wasn’t going to live long, though, if she couldn’t play the part. So she stared at her feet, even when she heard the girl approach her. Sandaled feet stopped across from hers. Her toenails were scaled, the same evergreen, and looked like they’d been painted that way.
    “I am Lennai of House Chara, your new domina,” she said. Her voice was light and airy, sweet, but Alaina remembered Yfia calling the Errai vicious.