Little One 2

So, I realize that there has been alot of plot recently, but we're getting closer to the action. I wanted to bring in some new characters, and so I needed to set them up in the story. But never fear, there will be more sex later on.

On with the show.


Rene tapped lightly on the door to Kaia’s room. A gasp from inside let him know he had surprised her. When she opened the door a few moments later he could see the way her wide eyes dominated her face and smiled, knowing he had indeed surprised her.

“Hel-Hello?” she barely whispered it.

“Hello, love, could I talk with you minute?” Rene asked, pouring on as much charm as he could, hoping to make the girl comfortable enough to talk to him.

“Y-yes, I suppose so.” Kaia opened the door and sat down on her bed, one of the few pieces of furniture in the room. She felt drained of her previous spirit, dejection and resignation overcoming her as she faced the reality of her situation as property to another person, a person who had probably bought her for the sole reason of raping her at every opportunity.

Rene followed her and took a seat in one of the spare chairs in the room, stealing a weighing look at her.

So much for being a fighter. She looked horrified. In the main room, she had stood, back ram rod straight, as they assigned her a room and announced the few rules of the harem. She had glared at them all defiantly. Now she fiddled with the hem of her shirt and kept her eyes on the floor. What had caused the change? Rene wished he could ask, but it would probably make her react badly, so he left it for the time being.

“How do you like it here?”

The question surprised her and for a second she glanced up at him, trying to gauge whether this was some guised attempt to break her down or whether he really wanted to know. Meeting his smiling eyes she figured it couldn’t hurt to answer him honestly, if a bit tactfully.

“It’s nice, I suppose. I haven’t seen much of anything, so I-I wouldn’t know what else to say about it,” her voice faded out, until the last part had been little more that soundless air moving through her lips.

Rene had caught the way she had glanced at him, and the way her eyes darted back to the floor the second she began to speak.

“You know you don’t have to stay in this room, right? You can go almost anywhere you like; the gardens are lovely, and there’s always someone in the common room of the harem,” he suggested gently. But she tensed at the words and Rene wanted to slap himself as he realized she had misconstrued his words. “That’s not what I meant!
Lots of the harem slaves spend their time out there, playing games or reading; there’s a library connected to it. And if all else fails there’s at least someone to talk to out there,” he amended quickly.

“You expect me to think that everyone around here just lounges about and plays games?” Kaia asked bitterly.

Rene ducked his head down and tried to see more of her face than the top of her head, unable to gauge this sudden change of mood from just her voice. She sounded like she wanted an argument, the first testament to her temper he had seen since being alone with her.

“No, I wouldn’t expect it of you, but I do want you to know it is not all that goes on here. There’s more to our lives, to the life you now have, than what most common people think. We aren’t out to rape you; we don’t want you hurt...”

“Of course not, doesn’t it lower my price or something? That’s the game? You’re just waiting to resell me and…”

“No, we aren’t. You’re here for good,” he didn’t feel bad about cutting into her blooming tirade; after all, she had cut into his speech first. A deep breath fortified him against his frustration and as carefully as he tried to control himself, he couldn’t help the angered words that slipped by.

“If you didn’t notice, Kateri stopped those people from stripping you on stage, in front of dozens of people. Who also wanted to buy you. You could just as easily be in their care now, but you are not,” reigning in his tone, he spoke softer, “Kateri, the Empress, she doesn’t want you to be upset here, none of us want you to be uncomfortable. She wanted to save you from that.”

“If she wanted to save me, why doesn’t she let me go now?”

He couldn’t help the laugh that preceded his response, and he caught the glare she shot at him.

“Sorry, but that isn’t much of an option. You aren’t a citizen anymore, you don’t have papers, you are a piece of property and if anyone found you out and about without those documents you would either belong to them immediately or be sent back to the slavers to be resold, whichever way they thought would gain them more. You are here, accept that, but you do have control over how you live here.”

“What control? I don’t seem to have any at the present moment.”

“You do, in fact you have the first of several important decisions that fall under that control right now.”
That got him a shocked look as she finally raised her eyes to meet his.

“What do you mean, decision?”

“Well, the Empress would very much like it if you would join her in her quarters tonight. You can go, and I assume you can figure out what you would be doing; or you could stay here.”

“If I stay here, what happens?”

He shrugged, “Nothing, maybe you do find a book to read, or play a round of chess. But Kateri usually doesn’t ask twice, and you’ll have missed an opportunity. She is patient, and she knows you’re a virgin,” she blushed at that and her eyes darted down again in embarrassment, “she really doesn’t want to hurt you.”

Kaia tried to ignore the heat burning her cheeks from his offhanded remark about her inexperience. When the tingling feeling didn’t leave, she pushed those thoughts away and hoped ignoring it would make it stop. Instead she tried to focus on what he had said. Her first instinct had been to shout that of course she wasn’t going anywhere near that woman, who had bought her, assigned a number and value to her life she were a couch or a lamp. Not given to following her inner voices rashly, she waited until reason quietly begged her to weigh the possibilities. If she did go, it would satisfy her curiosity about sex, but probably in more ways than she could handle. Sex had somewhat fascinated her, since until she had been taken away by the slavers she hadn’t really been told much of its existence.

She did know it was how children were conceived, and the general mechanics she had discovered walking in on her older brother and his girlfriend back home. But beyond that it eluded her. Why people pursued it so desperately, why it changed people, why it was bought and sold and traded and given away. She had wondered what about it made it so special. Sure it would be nice to be close to a person, she figured. She had had a few childhood crushes and one very awkward date in her teen years, but that resulted in little more than a polite peck on her cheek before he left her for the night.

Boys were cute, and there had been a few girls she had seen that she couldn’t deny were beautiful, and it felt good to be hugged or held, but sex seemed to hold some mysterious force that made that all more significant.
The idea that she might miss that chance was unsettling; though likely as not there would be other offers from people who were not the Empress.

Did she want to take that chance though? Rene had confirmed what she had grudgingly admitted to herself, that the Empress meant her no harm and had indeed saved her. Wouldn’t she feel safer in her arms than some other person she had no knowledge of? This was the woman who had bought her though, in the en she had been the one to declare that final value; could she trust someone who had seen her with a price? But that price had been declared with the intent to save her from a worse life, she mentally argued with herself, it hadn’t been made to degrade her, instead to spare her from that.

Maybe it was worth giving a chance. She took a breath, searching her mind for further argument against it before she glanced up at Rene where he sat patiently awaiting her response.

“Alright, I’ll go,” she managed softly, sounding surer of herself than she felt.

“Very well then, I’ll be back in a few hours to help you get ready,” with that last statement he rose and left, shutting the door quietly behind him.

In the hall outside Kaia’s door, Rene let the expression of surprise finally take over his face. He hadn’t expected that, not after her outburst, but supposed she had worked out her thoughts.

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