Mr. Nikolai's smug smile widened as he looked directly at Ryker and Zane, his tone deliberately taunting as he said, "Yes, I want you to do precisely that. Are the people who pick trash and clean somehow less than human? You cannot look down on them or discriminate like that. Everyone is capable of such work, so I don't understand why you are acting as if I've asked you to perform some impossible task. You have two hands, two legs, and one head, just like everyone else. So why can't you do it?"
He had barely finished speaking when his wolf-sharp hearing caught the softest whisper from Aiden, who muttered under his breath, "But they're not human."
