บท 491: The Truth, Revealed

Okay, this was just too many revelations for one day.

In the underground crypt where the former Queen was interred, Daneel took a step back and had to take the wall behind him for support as he tried to understand what Drakos had just told him.

After he thought for a bit, the pieces finally started to fall into place.

The matter of the elf slave trade in Angaria had made many waves at the time when it had been uncovered, but the most mysterious thing was that even after a lot of money had been burned to search for the elves who had been sold, none of them had been found.

After all, if it was true that the slave trade had gone on for a long time, it would mean that at least one elf out of the hundreds who had gone missing might have surfaced somewhere or the other, which would have given some clue.

Instead, it was as if they had all disappeared into thin air.

Now, it was obvious that they had all been killed.

But why?