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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Shayuri" data-source="post: 5740311" data-attributes="member: 4936">Nia frowned to herself as she followed Val and Wilbur away from the others, with the prisoners in Val's custody. She understood quite a bit of what Marcus had said of these criminals, but it didn't make sense to her. Why would one kidnap children? She could think of reasons. To extort the parents was the foremost...but these children were orphans. They weren't being taken for money. Labor then? But children made poor laborers. They were small and weak and tired quickly. Perhaps if the work had to be done in a small space...but there were better slaves then. Goblins or kobolds or even halflings.And these 'last laughers' weren't taking -many- children. 'A few lost orphans.' A handful perhaps, children who had no families to miss them or seek them. Their vanishing would be unremarked on.She didn't like where her instincts were pointing though. The Laughers probably didn't know why the children were being sought...but they would know how many children...and to whom they were given, perhaps. Enough to begin seeking the truth in earnest.</blockquote>