Privileges

The privilege to sit in the same vehicle as my buyer was not mine to have. I sat with his guards in another car as we made our way from the slave market. The guards I sat with kept glancing at me probably in disgust, but I couldn’t read expression well. I kept my hands in my laps trying so har not to move out of my space. I heart thudding against my chest. The thought of what’s to come making my blood run cold in my veins, I closed my eyes and willed for the best out of my service to this man.

After a while, playing with my fingers could not keep me distracted. I had the strong urge to turn my head just to see a bit more of the world around me. My eyes still unused to so much light burned in their sockets as I tactically turned my head to look out the window of the moving car. We were moving so fast I figured since my eyes could never settle on anything as we whizzed passed the trees. My eyes were not used to hoe much passed me in such little time. My head felt light as I kept my eyes locked on the world beyond the enclosed space I was currently trapped in. my mind wondering to the number of time I’ll be caged all my life as I lived.

My eyes started to play with me but my body would not relieve enough tension for my mind to rest and put me out of my miserable wait. I stayed up by force, urging my eyes to look at the wonders that surrounded us even as we zipped through the woods.

I was woken up by the view before me not long after my struggle. The large and heavy barred iron gate stood between great walls that rose off the ground for about eight feet. The brick walls looked like they aged gracefully as they rose from the ground up, vines creeping majestically up the walls with a certain rhythm even with the fear enveloping me I couldn’t help but acknowledge the beauty of the vines along the walls. Moss grew at the bottom of the walls where the vines did not manage to hide.

I was pushed ahead roughly by a jab to my sides from the guards. my stomach dropped further when I thought of the new life ahead of me. It was scary how I could be locked up for so many years then just sold to a random man to be my new master. Deep within I knew I had to learn to be a slave better than the others if I wanted to live a peaceful life even as a slave and there was nothing, I would yearn for more at this point. I followed the direction in which my new master was going with the guards behind me making sure I didn’t try to make a run for it not that I even thought about it. My head spun thinking of all the possibilities of what would happen if I even tried to escape my fate.

My heart raced as we walked closer to the gigantic iron and oak doors that separated the outside from the inside. My legs started to shake as I took the steps behind my master. The door was opened to him before he was ten feet to it and a line of maid decorated both sides of the walkway with the uniforms immaculately in place as they bowed in respect to welcome their owner. I stopped in the middle if a stride thinking of how I would have to learn to bow to my new master and please him like these maids were trying so hard to do. My master stopped in the middle of the hallway and snapped his fingers one of the maids came running and stopped a few feet away from him and dropped to her knees waiting for her master’s order.

His fingers snapped once more and I was pushed forward a bit until I was standing behind him. “take her under your wing. I want no mistakes”

“Yes Master” the maid said eyes on her feet as she spoke to him head bowed. He said nothing but just continued his stride into the mansion. He walked through a set of glass doors leading to what looked like the living room and took a seat in.

I stood still not knowing exactly what to do until the maid my master just spoke to turned to me and pulled me by my arm, not gently either and told me to come with her. I took a moment to decide if I should and she could tell the apprehension but didn’t have time for me or anything she dragged me along with her despite the fact that I let her know her claws were digging into my skin. I took a last glance at the direction my buyer went before we disappeared behind an old large oak door.

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