I suppose people who buy and sell children, their own or others, are never going to have even the best intentions pan out.
[ Trafficking, is what that is, one way or the other. (Adoptions don't fall under the same umbrella.) Jim's voice is subdued, his normal forceful energy resting somewhere until needed. Like this, it's easier to notice how observant and watchful he can be. ]
Your brother?
[ He's the sort of person who wouldn't pry, generally, but something about all this has conjured up his own kind of ghosts.
By now the red has faded, leaving him in a gold and black uniform, captain's stripes and all. A clean and tidy version of the one he arrived in, which met an unfortunate end in the toxic swamp his group of refugees crash landed in. ]
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[ Trafficking, is what that is, one way or the other. (Adoptions don't fall under the same umbrella.) Jim's voice is subdued, his normal forceful energy resting somewhere until needed. Like this, it's easier to notice how observant and watchful he can be. ]
Your brother?
[ He's the sort of person who wouldn't pry, generally, but something about all this has conjured up his own kind of ghosts.
By now the red has faded, leaving him in a gold and black uniform, captain's stripes and all. A clean and tidy version of the one he arrived in, which met an unfortunate end in the toxic swamp his group of refugees crash landed in. ]