The auction was getting really boring until it wasn't anymore. A scrawny boy was pushed on the stage, bound with belts and chains, stripped to underwear, bruised and beaten... His red eyes dated around the place with panic.

"And now the cherry on top! The highlight of the show, tonight's star!" A man shouts from the stage - contrasting heavily to the poor kid with his clean, shiny suit. He grabs the boy by the arm and he flinches and shakes, bothered both by the cold and fear of what's coming.

"A spherite, dear ladies and gentlemen! A true, live spherite! Starting with fifty thousand!"