A Bleak Prospect
The Black Void - Episode 2135
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"I'll go to wherever you finish up, and buy your freedom from them," Zal
assures me, evidently realising that any further attempt to resist isn't
going to achieve anything except perhaps getting himself hurt by Maris and
his henchmen.
"You'll have to find her first," Maris says. "Do you know just how many brothels there are in this city? Thought not. Nor do I. But it probably runs into hundreds." Zal looks as if he is about to say something, but then appears to change his mind. If he has an idea about how he might track me down, then it would obviously be unwise to let Maris know what it is. One possibility that occurs to me is that he might simply ask the auctioneer. Surely he would know who the buyer was? Or would he necessarily, if it was a cash transaction? "Would a brothel really be best if you've got it in for her?" one of Maris's men says. "She'd have a fairly easy life there. I've heard that they're so short of men in the coal mines that they are willing to take female slaves if they are reasonably fit. It's exhausting, dangerous, hot and filthy work, by all accounts." "You may have a point," Maris replies. "I'll sleep on it and decide in the morning. Well, I suppose that it's time that we were going. Stand up, slave." I do as I'm told. From a bag he takes a set of handcuffs and cuffs my hands behind my back. Then he chains my ankles together, restricting my stride to about eighteen inches. Clearly after last time he isn't taking any chances. "Farewell, landlord," he says. "Move!" He prods me in the back, and I obediently shuffle towards the exit. I am barefoot. I haven't had a chance to replace my shoes, and in any case they are too uncomfortable for me to want to. I emerge onto the street, which is dark and silent at this late hour. If it hadn't been for the leg-irons, I'd have been tempted to try to run for it.
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