The news spread faster than anything the City Hall could have anticipated.
Since the day Lyra Court's decision was read aloud in the middle of the square, within less than two weeks, the news that Lyra city was willing to spend solid gold redeeming people had run along the entire trading road from North to South.
Every person passing the news added a little salt and sauce to it. By the time that news crawled to the southern coastal towns, the story had morphed into: in the North, there is a city of monsters, whenever anyone leads a human life there they will pour out gold to buy back cleanly, completely not needing to know how old or young they are.
The ninth day after the trial, the first slave-transporting wagon appeared at the checkpoint.
