Elizabeth huddled amongst the shambling mass of slaves. It had to be admitted that she stood out; fragile and curvacious rather than the half-starved angular look of most of the human slaves, her blond hair and pale skin shone in the harsh light.<br/><br/>She'd been on a 'settler' transport, headed for a large planet her father owned. The transport had been disabled and boarded by slavers, and she'd been roughly bound and thrown in a dingy hold, kept there for days. Finally she'd been stripped down to her underthings and was now going to be paraded before the customers, mostly from the rough outer edges of colonised space.