Suddenly there was a loud rasping scrape and a bang from outside her door and Elemmíre jumped in alarm as the large troll like guard came lurching in. He growled sinisterly at her and stomped over to the chain attaching her to the wall and unlocked the chain so while she was still chained up he now had the ability to drag her around like a dog on a leash. Yanking her up to her hooves Elemmíre cried out in pain as her already sore wrists were abused by this new movement. The Goragorn ignored her cry of pain and continued to drag her out into the corridor. Panic was once again coursing through her as she struggled against her captor but for all the difference she might have been a fly buzzing around his head.

Eventually she was dragged into a room with a high stage in the centre on which stood a large man with a cruel, hard face. Elemmíre was dragged kicking and crying through the crowd, all of whom were male of some species of another and some looked at her with collector’s interest other with more sinister gleams. It took a full five antagonising minutes to drag her up to the stage when she chained once again onto a hook in the floor. Shaking it desperately Elemmíre knew she wasn’t going anywhere and with the Goragorn standing behind her even if she did would hard pressed to escape him. 

“Well Gentlemen!” The auction master stood forward gesturing invitingly to the crowd “This is the event you have all been waiting for. This is one of the fabled Acornia, once known and revered throughout the galaxy but now only a few remain. For today and this day only we have this young female up for sale, not only is she one of the last of her kind, she is the Star Child, next in line to be leader of their kind, in short she is a pure breed of the royal line.” With a flourish he grabbed her arm and thrust her forward so the crowd could get a good look at her in the light. “So shall we start the bidding at $100,000,000 credits.” There was a flurry of movement in the crowd as paddles shot up to begin the auction.