Szusha began explaining how she first met Petros.
Around every two years a group of high-level Lamias would make their way to the surface to bring men back down to their town. And thanks to having both healing and earth magic which made the trips far safer and easier Szusha almost always accompanied the party.
Naturally as Borealia and Tralenstein were the two closest nations, these were the two countries that the Lamias would go to.
Hearing this did not sit particularly well with Lyra. To her it sounded like the Lamias were kidnapping the citizens under her protection.
"No, we don't ever abduct anyone!" Szusha said, waving her hands in front of her frantically as she denied the accusation.
She quickly clarified that they would purchase slaves from legitimate business that they had managed to form mutually beneficial ties with. Or recruit those that had nowhere else to go.
