NovelEnglishThe tops of the drums were shaped like three small bongos. I tapped on them experimentally until I had a good rhythm going.
Playing these little drums was complicated, but I Loved music. The only part of high school I liked was band class. The pitch each drum made was different and that took sgetting used to. I got engrossed in what I was doing. I looked up to see Fuji swiveling her hips to the beat. I spent the rest of the morning tapping out different beats on the drums while the girls danced.
A bell rang suddenly and everything stopped. Fuji started to run out.
She turned around abruptly grabbing my hand and pullingwith her.
“Where are we going?” I asked her trying to keep up.
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt“Our Masters are coming to feed us, they don’t like to wait,” she said.
I noticed my owner’s mark on the floor in the room she took us into. A kneeling place was set up in front of it. A chair and a small table were in front of me. I followed Fuji’s lead and kneeled down waiting, no one was talking.
I heard the tamping of feet as the men started to cin. A set stopped in front of me, but I kept my head down.
“Hello, Ciara,” I heard Christof say as he brushed my cheek. I looked up at him and smiled.
Christof was dirty, it Looked like he had had a rough morning. His hands were clean, though. He fed me from a bowl until I thought I would burst. I never refused what he gave me, I just chewed really slowly.
Unlike my other owners he stopped feedingand didn’t fuss at me.
Leaning down he Laughed quietly in my ear. “Follow me,” he said.
I followed his heels out into the courtyard and out the door in the wall. le’re outside the Keeper’s compound, Ciara. You can look around if you’d like to, none of the other Warriors cout here,” he said.
“Are we allowed to be out here, Christof?” I asked curiously.
We walked into what I would have considered a forest at home, along a little path. The plants were all different and I looked at them fascinated.
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“Yes, I can take you out here. Most Warriors just cand feed their slave a mid day meal. I thought you might be curious to see outside the compound,” he said watchingwith interest.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏm“Yes, I’d love to see this,” I said inspecting a bright yellow leaf growing from the ground.
“Iam curious, also,” he told me.
I asked simple questions at first, the names of plants and about things around us. He didn’t seem to mind telling me, so I got bolder and asked about the planet.
“I don’t know the whole planet, Ciara,” he laughed. “The Administrators placedin this village as a child and I have never lived another place.”
“Where was the slave auction? Is it on this world?” I asked hesitantly.
“Do you know how I got there?”
“My brothers and I took a transport to the edge of the mountains. There is a place there our leaders allow the portals. We took the one that leads to the slave auction. It is in center space on a small neutral planet. We were told the portals can make a human sick if they are awake, so my brothers made sure you slept,” he told me.
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