Sell the Slave

"What is this, young sister?" The kids looked at the spices I was giving them with curious eyes. Their bright and big eyes were looking at everything with interest.

"That is pepper and this is vinegar. That is…``I told them the name of each of the spices slowly. So that they could sink in the new information. Though their parents would think that i was doing wrong by giving spices to the kids, i think it is fine, they needed to learn all this information to protect themselves and their family. It was much better than the sword and dagger anyway.

"So we are supposed to blow it in the eyes of the captors?" I nodded when the young boy looked at the pepper and then at me. Was he thinking of trying it on me. He continued to look at me and then at the spices as he stayed lost deep in his thoughts. Finally he shook his head and sighed as if he was asked to move the mountains.