"The auction will begin, starting at five thousand gold coins!" the masked man said.
Rose's eyes nearly bulged from her sockets. She could count how many times she had seen a gold coin. She could count it on her right hand only, and only the baron owned gold coins in Edenville. With a gold coin, she could take her mother to the best physician in all of Edenville for a week, and here she was getting sold for five thousand pieces of gold.
No one in their right mind would pay that kind of money for a simple peasant simply because she had lived in the castle for a few days. No one was that crazy.
"Oh, we have a bidder. Five thousand, Lord Wolf. Anyone else?"