Skillya is not the only Slig queen, nor the only one who leases her children off as security grunts. The Sligs so far seen are not male, they are sexless workers. And she is indeed mean and greedy. The queens has no motherly feelings towards their children supposedly because of how painful they are to give birth to.
I don’t see them in chains, but it would stand to reason there is a not-so-clearcut but as yet unrevealed backstory to their industrialization.
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