Maria listened to Ellie talk about her plan for the slave market, talking about the basics of economics to a girl who up until 3 months ago, lived in an order that supplied her with an order that fed and clothed her, as long as she did whatever the fuck they told her to do. It created the seeds of slight submission, and to this day she still mostly takes orders, and expects to be fed for free. Skills aren't really something she has a lot of, at least non-combat related ones.    The closest thing to a skill that she had was her interrogation training from her old master, and she actually was good at tracking and surviving in wilderness situations, her and her master being trapped for several days on a distant planet once really helped with that.<br/><br/>This was much diffrent because people knew what planet she and her master were on, and they had an S.O.S, there was nothing like that here, just backwater planet, with people she hadn't known for too terribly long. She'd have to figure out what sort of trade skills she had to work with later, it was obvious where their goals lay.<br/><br/>She walked up to one of the men with the catgirls leashed up, asking him where he got his pet, saying that she very much would like one for herself, and is looking for directions as to where one could purchase such a creature.