The half-hour finally elapsed, and Bengal's lackeys evacuated the stage, and nearly a minute passed before Bengal leaped up, his grin even broader than it had been all day. "All right, ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, here's one of the top gems of the show," he boomed. "If you look to my left, you'll see the young Katkin up there, fully restrained. Her name is Siena."<br/><br/>He paused as some of the audience started booing. "Wait, wait. I know, you're thinking that Catkin are pretty common slaves - she'd cost only 500 to a thousand cred, tops, right?" He leaned forward and boomed, "<em>Well, you're wrong!</em>" He started pacing the stage, and boomed out, "What you see up there isn't any normal Catkin girl. Most of you probably don't know this already, but the six major Catkin clans actually have a little secret government that most people aren't aware of. This government relates to how their clans deal with each other, what territory they can go in, and so on."<br/><br/>He turned, prowling back the other way. "And young miss Siena's father, who acts like a normal, simple trader most of the time, is actually the chief argument settler of all of the clans, major<em>and</em>minor. When there's an argument, a fight, a dispute... they turn to him to settle it."<br/><br/>He paused, waiting for that to sink in. "That's right, ladies and gentlemen, Siena's father is no less than the<em>KING</em>of the Catkin tribes... although they don't<em>call</em>him that, because that would defeat the secret, you see?" He paused again. "And that means that Siena, his only daughter, is the<strong><em>Princess of ALL Catkin.</em></strong>"<br/><br/>He let that bomb settle for several seconds, before stating, "My associates spent nearly a month trying to find a good opportunity to grab her, but they finally did. I'll open the bidding at half a million, but before we do that, I want to point out that Siena has not been raped or sexually abused by any members of my staff while she was with me... save for one petty fondling, which has been...<em>taken care of.</em>I cannot guarantee that she's a virgin, mind you, because I don't know what her sex life was before we got her, but<em>WE</em>haven't abused her." He boomed up to Siena, "Miss Siena, can you agree that this is true, that you were not sexually abused while you were here?"