Honey_B
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A Slave's Fortune - An Adventure in Mexico
Our little adventure begins in the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. The year is 1523. Two years have passed since the fall of Moctezuma and Cortez is the city's governor. The former conquistador is a better conqueror than administrator. Yet even as lawlessness abounds so does opportunity. The country is flooded with young adventurers from Spain, hoping to find fortune and adventure in this new world. Expeditions set out daily into the largely unexplored interior of the country.
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I am at a horrible age. I am old enough to remember life before "they" came, yet I am just now entering my prime, an age where I have become apparently desirable. "Young, lithe, and graceful," my hated captor calls me. He says I will bring an excellent price on the auction block. He is a merchant of the flesh and I have become nothing but a commodity. I steel myself for the impending indignity.
The fat Spaniard pulls the young Indian woman from behind a makeshift curtain, out into full view of the gathered audience. The woman is clad in only a revealing dirty shift and appears to be about 20, with long dark hair and flawless olive skin. Her high cheekbones and slanted eyes are indicative of her tribe, though she is considered quite unattractive by her own people. The slave trader grasps the woman roughly by the shoulder, his fingers digging in to the sensitive flesh of her upper arm. She is brought to center stage and the man begins his sales pitch.
"Nice, ripe female," the man calls out to the crowd. He hefts her right breast in a dingy hand to prove his point. "Beautiful face! Look at her, gentlemen. There aren't many females here who haven't been ruined. Nobody sloped her forehead or crossed these lovely eyes." He turns the woman sideways to show that her profile has been unaltered. A shamed expression clouds the woman's defiant features. "She's awfully quiet now, but I've learned that she speaks Spanish as well as most of the heathen dialects in this godforsaken country. Not that you'll need to speak much to a woman like this!" His leer is grotesque in its enthusiasm. "An excellent asset for any expedition into wilds of New Spain. Who is going to start the bidding?" The man looks expectantly out at the crowd.
OOC: I will be writing the part of the slave girl. Now who is going to bid on me?
Our little adventure begins in the former Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan. The year is 1523. Two years have passed since the fall of Moctezuma and Cortez is the city's governor. The former conquistador is a better conqueror than administrator. Yet even as lawlessness abounds so does opportunity. The country is flooded with young adventurers from Spain, hoping to find fortune and adventure in this new world. Expeditions set out daily into the largely unexplored interior of the country.
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I am at a horrible age. I am old enough to remember life before "they" came, yet I am just now entering my prime, an age where I have become apparently desirable. "Young, lithe, and graceful," my hated captor calls me. He says I will bring an excellent price on the auction block. He is a merchant of the flesh and I have become nothing but a commodity. I steel myself for the impending indignity.
The fat Spaniard pulls the young Indian woman from behind a makeshift curtain, out into full view of the gathered audience. The woman is clad in only a revealing dirty shift and appears to be about 20, with long dark hair and flawless olive skin. Her high cheekbones and slanted eyes are indicative of her tribe, though she is considered quite unattractive by her own people. The slave trader grasps the woman roughly by the shoulder, his fingers digging in to the sensitive flesh of her upper arm. She is brought to center stage and the man begins his sales pitch.
"Nice, ripe female," the man calls out to the crowd. He hefts her right breast in a dingy hand to prove his point. "Beautiful face! Look at her, gentlemen. There aren't many females here who haven't been ruined. Nobody sloped her forehead or crossed these lovely eyes." He turns the woman sideways to show that her profile has been unaltered. A shamed expression clouds the woman's defiant features. "She's awfully quiet now, but I've learned that she speaks Spanish as well as most of the heathen dialects in this godforsaken country. Not that you'll need to speak much to a woman like this!" His leer is grotesque in its enthusiasm. "An excellent asset for any expedition into wilds of New Spain. Who is going to start the bidding?" The man looks expectantly out at the crowd.
OOC: I will be writing the part of the slave girl. Now who is going to bid on me?
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