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<blockquote data-quote="Solange" data-source="post: 3861209" data-attributes="member: 51919"><p>[sblock=Keldar]Rapture pulls Keldar under a tree for shelter from the oncoming rain, <span style="color: #ff3399">"If only I had been so lucky. As a little girl I remember being kept in a room while strangers came in and..."</span> she shudders.</p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff3399">"When I was older, I was chosen to cater to a more sophisticated crowd as a courtisan. It was painfully taught to me the manner in which I was expected to act. Master watched me almost always. I am glad he did not choose me for his own, as those he did I never saw again. I know I was worth a lot to him, and I don't think many of the true noblewomen liked me, but they politely tolerated me."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff3399">"One older man began to buy my services regularly, and claimed to love me. He managed to buy me from Master. I changed my name as he suggested, for the name master gave me wasn't fitting of a noble woman. He tried to woo me to marry him. It was not my place as a slave, and I did not love him, but to him that did not matter. He was in his waining years, and he promised me my freedom once he died, as all he wanted was happiness, and that was what he said I gave him. I finally relented and he drew up the papers."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff3399">"I was nervous, but the wedding was lovely, and Lord Troy was a gentleman though out it all. On that day I became Lady Helen Menelaus, wife of Lord Troy Menelaus."</span> She takes a signet ring out of her pocket and dons it, looking at it for a moment before she takes it back off. <span style="color: #ff3399">"But it wouldn't last long, as I went to join him for our wedding night, I found him lying in bed in a pool of blood, his own dagger in his chest, that I had grabbed as I slipped to run to him. Then I heard one of Master's enforcers say something about being His again. I'd been set up, and would be sold back into slavery for the crime, so I ran."</span></p><p></p><p>Rapture appears visibly shaken, but not nearly so much as last night. <span style="color: #ff3399">"I've never told anyone that story before. I've never known who I could trust. The Freefolk took me in and never asked, so I never told, and I've been Rapture again ever since."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff3399">"I know little of Master, other than he is one of the bigger underground slave lords in Rheim. I never knew his to be anything other than Master, nor do I hope to ever know him again."</span></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #ff3399">"Lord Troy was a sweet man, and I did care for him, for he was so nice to be, but I never loved him like he truly deserved. I hope Zephos has lead him back to his first wife, for what he had told me of her she did love him, and he loved her. You remind me of him a little, though a little sillier."</span></p><p></p><p>Rapture sighs, as if a big weight has been lifted from her. <span style="color: #ff3399">"It feels good to talk about such things somehow, thank you Keldar."</span>[/sblock]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Solange, post: 3861209, member: 51919"] [sblock=Keldar]Rapture pulls Keldar under a tree for shelter from the oncoming rain, [color=#ff3399]"If only I had been so lucky. As a little girl I remember being kept in a room while strangers came in and..."[/color] she shudders. [color=#ff3399]"When I was older, I was chosen to cater to a more sophisticated crowd as a courtisan. It was painfully taught to me the manner in which I was expected to act. Master watched me almost always. I am glad he did not choose me for his own, as those he did I never saw again. I know I was worth a lot to him, and I don't think many of the true noblewomen liked me, but they politely tolerated me."[/color] [color=#ff3399]"One older man began to buy my services regularly, and claimed to love me. He managed to buy me from Master. I changed my name as he suggested, for the name master gave me wasn't fitting of a noble woman. He tried to woo me to marry him. It was not my place as a slave, and I did not love him, but to him that did not matter. He was in his waining years, and he promised me my freedom once he died, as all he wanted was happiness, and that was what he said I gave him. I finally relented and he drew up the papers."[/color] [color=#ff3399]"I was nervous, but the wedding was lovely, and Lord Troy was a gentleman though out it all. On that day I became Lady Helen Menelaus, wife of Lord Troy Menelaus."[/color] She takes a signet ring out of her pocket and dons it, looking at it for a moment before she takes it back off. [color=#ff3399]"But it wouldn't last long, as I went to join him for our wedding night, I found him lying in bed in a pool of blood, his own dagger in his chest, that I had grabbed as I slipped to run to him. Then I heard one of Master's enforcers say something about being His again. I'd been set up, and would be sold back into slavery for the crime, so I ran."[/color] Rapture appears visibly shaken, but not nearly so much as last night. [color=#ff3399]"I've never told anyone that story before. I've never known who I could trust. The Freefolk took me in and never asked, so I never told, and I've been Rapture again ever since."[/color] [color=#ff3399]"I know little of Master, other than he is one of the bigger underground slave lords in Rheim. I never knew his to be anything other than Master, nor do I hope to ever know him again."[/color] [color=#ff3399]"Lord Troy was a sweet man, and I did care for him, for he was so nice to be, but I never loved him like he truly deserved. I hope Zephos has lead him back to his first wife, for what he had told me of her she did love him, and he loved her. You remind me of him a little, though a little sillier."[/color] Rapture sighs, as if a big weight has been lifted from her. [color=#ff3399]"It feels good to talk about such things somehow, thank you Keldar."[/color][/sblock] [/QUOTE]
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