"The Technic League agents always found us in the end. I don't know how they managed to do it — they probably

"The Technic League agents always found us in the end. I don't know how they managed to do it — they probably used magic, or maybe it was just our fate. They whipped us and returned us to our old masters, or sold us to new ones — if the old ones refused to pay. So we were slaves again, but the dream about the River Kingdoms never left our hearts."