The child didn't understand what was happening as the ones who brought him into this world handed him off to a strange man as though he were a piece of fruit being traded. It didn't make much sense to him: why did his mother and father want to get rid of him, but he knew the reason as soon as the stranger handed a bag of gold coins to his avaricious parents.
To the boy born to slum dwellers, only a few years into his youth, he understood what happened–he knew that his life was less valuable than a sack of money to his parents.
["I've seen the kinds of things my old man would do for a few coins, same for my mother. Honestly, I didn't feel betrayed–they raised me to appreciate money above all else, so back then, I believed they made the smartest choice selling their only son."]