The Story of Hanna/Slave Market/Day One
You wake up to softly spoken voices of some girls coming from outside your cell. You slept really well, and you're fully energized. As you come to it, you're immediately reminded of everything that happened yesterday, and your situation. For two weeks, this is going to be your home. There are two ways out: for Chad, your lawful owner to come and save you from here, or for the time to run out and for the slave merchants to sell you. Yesterday was the first day, so there are thirteen days of actual work left until there's really no way out. For you this is going to be a physical and mental test like any other. Your past life as Chad's slave is nothing compared to what is going to happen to you going forward.
That's the first thing that's on your mind. Next is what you perceive to be a change in your condition. Waking up sexually excited is not anything unusual for you, but there's something unusual about your wellbeing. It has to be the drug you took yesterday. It's very strange that it didn't bug you over the night, but now that you're awake, it has taken hold of you. It's nothing you can't get over, and certainly nothing that will leave you to be bedridden or horny beyond reason, but carrying this "burden" around through your day is not going to feel pleasant. Having your horniness remain untreated usually just makes it worse, especially when drugs are involved. Well, it's going to be treated one way or another during the course of the day whenever you want it or not. It's only a question of how and when at this point.
You also feel the brand on your stomach throb in a strange way, or is it actually coming from what's underneath? You know it's tattooed into your pubic region, so it's probably either partially or completely on top of your womb. You haven't really paid much attention to it, so you sit up to inspect it properly. It is black, or grey, depending on how you put it. It has a very dark tone to it, and it has no colors besides that. In the middle of it there's the actual spell circle, which is very small and intricate. You can't make much sense of what kind of runes are written on it, but then again, the runes are elven, and you can't speak the language of the elves, or as they call it, "Elf's tongue". The larger part of the brand is the tattoo, which probably doesn't serve a purpose; it's all just aesthetics. It's a tribal tattoo, shaped in form of a heart, or maybe an uterus? There is also a numeric code on top of it, which probably has something to do with the tracking mechanism it supposedly has attached to it. You were hoping to find out something about how it works by inspecting it properly, but in the end, it turned out to be useless. Only way to find out what it really does is to feed it some mana, and that's something you're not going to try this morning.
As the last thing you do, you want to confirm that your ring is actually there. No, actually, it may not be a good idea after all. More times you check on it, the more times you risk getting caught. Nobody could've stolen it while you were sleeping. There's just no way. You trust that it's still there and decide not to do anything about it.
So, that's pretty much all you can do in your little bunk; inspect yourself and lay down to relax. It's your first day so you might as well use it to familiarize yourself with the market. Or, you could just lay down and waste away your days in this wretched place.
What do you want to do?
- Stay in your bunk. ((This will advance the story by few hours. There will not be another chance to explore the market comprehensively in the future.))