Honors of the Trade.

"Do you consider your trade an honorable one?".

"Surely, I work hard for my money. I treat my workforce as good as I can, of course within the limits of my business. I never inflict any physical harm on them - nor psychological for that matter."

"But you buy and sell humans, you take their freedom and bond them to slavery. That's hardly an honorable profession, is it?"

"I operate my business in Beyond, away from laws and rules of The Oikumene. I am a reasonable man with a reasonable attitude towards my business and all the people involved. I'm sure that if any of my workforce were to be handled by some of my less scrupulous colleagues, they would be far worse off!"

"It's obvious that you have a severe lacking of conscious..."

"Conscious has nothing to do with it, my dear madam. I tend to see myself as a broker in workforce. Unfortunately, due to circumstances beyond my control the individuals in my workforce have no longer say over their destiny. Maybe their lack of control is temporarily and they regain their freedom within time, I don't know."

- Gascoyne the Wholesaler of Vlurchison's Star in an interview with an anonymous female editor from New Ossining, Olliphane.