354 | John W. Warner IV Madame Recamier silky-smooth stockings were always the best. Bernie pointed at them in accusation. Time travelers, eh? Businessmen? More like the Mafia. Youre nothing but low vibrational low-lifes dealing in the cosmic black market, and at bargain prices for black arts military technology. What did the SS pay you with? Human genetics probably. Jews? Poles? Slavs? Bargain prices? We engage only in a barter system, an exacting one. Lew stood proudly next to his brother and took a haughty, sing-song tone. Youre so uncouth at times, a piss-ant parvenu, mind your insolent tone as you were taught as a boy, Herr Poncy. Time travel, timeline hopping, stargate access, and spacefaring are all part of the same tourist travel brochure. Your dunce-hatted Einstein knows that, ninnies John Trump and Oppy too, well, at least partially. We have nothing to hide. If you must know, it was.. .urchin children mostly, a hundred thousand per annum, poor, filthy, and unloved by your cruel and heartless societies, their physiology clean when compared to an adults lifetime of tobacco, pharmaceuticals, disease, and alcohol. Scores of young females of a specific ethnic and age group are traded for breeding and pleasure, just as was done in the old scented markets of Babylon, Hattusha, and Aphrodisias, the spices and gems trading hotly along with expensive human flesh; some things never change. Average men are considered foodstuffs mostly, but are also valuable slave labor offworld. Mining is big business in our galaxy, and a goodly portion must be done intelligently by hand. Gwafa said: So, we are all slaves regardless of color or caste, tout le monde? Smarter than you look, MonsieurDaxkie, and thats annoying. Indeed, all ofyou