Many of the women in cages were dirty, thin, and sickly looking. They had to be, to have allowed themselves to be caught by the slavers in the first place, since it wasn't a fate women desired. The loveliest of them was a young woman with red hair; her eyes were closed, so they were an undetermined color. She was thin and pale, dressed in rags which did little to protect her from the cold. She did not look at him, she might have been asleep, or was pretending to be to escape notice. Though she was white as a sheet, there were hints of health in the flush of her cheeks, promising a buyer she wouldn't be likely to die within a small amount of her purchase.