The wailing seemed endless, and surely would drive her into the shadows of madness if it did not cease. Lifting her head, she peered at the other girls with her dark midnight black eyes. To look within would see the disdain, the disgust at the wails, the crys of the others. What good is sobbing, begging, crying? Their voices only growing ragged with every sound they made. What good would it do them? They would be bought, sold, enslaved, chained, used, maybe even abused, no matter what they said, did, promised, begged.
That was the world of slaves and slave traders. Buyers and Sellers of human, almost always female, flesh.
Niara shifted her own position. The slight clinging of chains only reinforcing the simple fact that she were in the same boat, so to speak, as the other girls. Fact of the matter was, yes, they were in a boat. A large one at that. More than likely a battle frigate perhaps, she did not think that such conditions of the hold would be this bad on a pleasure ship. This was a battle frigate, converted into a slave ship. Sailing, but sailing where?
Did it matter? Niara knew she was far from home. Home for her was far to the south, where few sailed. But always there were the men seeking fortunes. Fortunes made on the lives of others. The females of her people were stunningly beautiful, with their exotic dark eyes, and midnight black, or crimson red hair. So different from the pale skinned, fair princesses that seemed to be the more popular majority these days, at least in the more northern and western lands.
It took one Captain of one ship to speak of the beautiful females.
She had been captured on the very shore she called home. Surprised at dawn when she ventured out to bathe in the early morning rising sun. A scream never got the chance to warn others, or to sound for help. Bound, gagged, she, along with several others, friends, were dragged away.
That had been at least a moon cycle ago. Upon examination, she was deemed healthy, and virginal, and chained in the dark hold of the very ship she were still on. Her lands had not been the only one ravaged that day. That explained some of the wailing girls. There were so many of them.
As they stopped in their journey, some girls were taken off, never to be seen again. When the others were allowed any fresh air time, Niara among them, she heard, and glanced, the slave auctions going on. The girls crying, as strange men offered money, buying them, dragging them away with a leer on their face and lust in their eyes. At one port, Niara saw one man buy one of her own friends, Julla, a raven haired girl of 18 seasons, just a season less then Niara's 19. The man did not even bother to wait until they were in private before deflowering his new, crying, screaming, virgin, pulling her aside and raping her in front of the other leering Men. Niara felt her own tears burn her cheeks. There was nothing she could do.
She heard them laughing at the markings on Julla's face. All the girls of her people were marked. They were of the LLar Falmar people. The people of the Three Waves. Upon her very cheek was etched, in permant ink made from heated tree sap and various leaves and flower petals, were the 3 spirals, the 3 Waves. It made her, and the others of her own people, very valuable, very exotic, and very covetted. Julla had the misfortune of being sold to one who only ridiculed her markings as he took her.
Now she lay in the hold once more, the chain snaking from the steel collar about her throat to the hook embedded deeply in the thick wood behind her. She had enough slack to get to her feet to stretch her legs, and maybe walk 3 steps. She could not reach any of the others. In fact, she could barely see them. There were fewer now, and she wondered at what Port she would be taken from the hold and offered for sale.
That very Port was approaching, a seaside place that called itself Port Karnon. It was dirty, foul, disgusting and lawless, where any number of the unwanted, or the wanted, could hide from the bounty hunters and others that may be looking for them. It was not a place many wanted to call home. And the ones that did were as foul as Port Karnon itself was.
By the time the Slave Traders were ready to leave Port Karnon, only Niara was left for sale. And that was for one reason only. She was the most expensive of the slaves offered, stunningly beautiful with her mane of the deepest crimson red, and eyes of midnight black. She was not a screamer, a cryer, a begger. That made her more desireable, for many Men had a distaste for sniveling, cowering women. Niara was certainly not that. The Traders wanted top dollar for her, and were soliciting some arriving Captains and then like for possible sale to one of them.
A picture of Niara
That was the world of slaves and slave traders. Buyers and Sellers of human, almost always female, flesh.
Niara shifted her own position. The slight clinging of chains only reinforcing the simple fact that she were in the same boat, so to speak, as the other girls. Fact of the matter was, yes, they were in a boat. A large one at that. More than likely a battle frigate perhaps, she did not think that such conditions of the hold would be this bad on a pleasure ship. This was a battle frigate, converted into a slave ship. Sailing, but sailing where?
Did it matter? Niara knew she was far from home. Home for her was far to the south, where few sailed. But always there were the men seeking fortunes. Fortunes made on the lives of others. The females of her people were stunningly beautiful, with their exotic dark eyes, and midnight black, or crimson red hair. So different from the pale skinned, fair princesses that seemed to be the more popular majority these days, at least in the more northern and western lands.
It took one Captain of one ship to speak of the beautiful females.
She had been captured on the very shore she called home. Surprised at dawn when she ventured out to bathe in the early morning rising sun. A scream never got the chance to warn others, or to sound for help. Bound, gagged, she, along with several others, friends, were dragged away.
That had been at least a moon cycle ago. Upon examination, she was deemed healthy, and virginal, and chained in the dark hold of the very ship she were still on. Her lands had not been the only one ravaged that day. That explained some of the wailing girls. There were so many of them.
As they stopped in their journey, some girls were taken off, never to be seen again. When the others were allowed any fresh air time, Niara among them, she heard, and glanced, the slave auctions going on. The girls crying, as strange men offered money, buying them, dragging them away with a leer on their face and lust in their eyes. At one port, Niara saw one man buy one of her own friends, Julla, a raven haired girl of 18 seasons, just a season less then Niara's 19. The man did not even bother to wait until they were in private before deflowering his new, crying, screaming, virgin, pulling her aside and raping her in front of the other leering Men. Niara felt her own tears burn her cheeks. There was nothing she could do.
She heard them laughing at the markings on Julla's face. All the girls of her people were marked. They were of the LLar Falmar people. The people of the Three Waves. Upon her very cheek was etched, in permant ink made from heated tree sap and various leaves and flower petals, were the 3 spirals, the 3 Waves. It made her, and the others of her own people, very valuable, very exotic, and very covetted. Julla had the misfortune of being sold to one who only ridiculed her markings as he took her.
Now she lay in the hold once more, the chain snaking from the steel collar about her throat to the hook embedded deeply in the thick wood behind her. She had enough slack to get to her feet to stretch her legs, and maybe walk 3 steps. She could not reach any of the others. In fact, she could barely see them. There were fewer now, and she wondered at what Port she would be taken from the hold and offered for sale.
That very Port was approaching, a seaside place that called itself Port Karnon. It was dirty, foul, disgusting and lawless, where any number of the unwanted, or the wanted, could hide from the bounty hunters and others that may be looking for them. It was not a place many wanted to call home. And the ones that did were as foul as Port Karnon itself was.
By the time the Slave Traders were ready to leave Port Karnon, only Niara was left for sale. And that was for one reason only. She was the most expensive of the slaves offered, stunningly beautiful with her mane of the deepest crimson red, and eyes of midnight black. She was not a screamer, a cryer, a begger. That made her more desireable, for many Men had a distaste for sniveling, cowering women. Niara was certainly not that. The Traders wanted top dollar for her, and were soliciting some arriving Captains and then like for possible sale to one of them.
A picture of Niara
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