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 Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:33 pm
Memories of Odette de VoreA journals written by Odette de Vore
Detailing her life as a former noble of house de Vore and her life of slavery.By: Odette de VoreVOL. I Years: 179 - 201born: Year 179 Sold: Year 182
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 7:56 pm
Year 184
Master Soma and Mistress Claire Dear Journal I try writing this because I am not sure how well my writing is, but I will do my best. I received this journal from Master Jameson in order to practice my writing and to recall everything that has happened so far. He says that it is a good thing to have something to write in so I can find out who I am. I do not understand what he means by find myself, am I not what my master wants me to be. that is what a good slave is supposed to be, that's what Mistress Haley told me. Well...from what I remember my first master was Master Soma Barrow and his wife, Mistress Claire Barrow. I think they were nice people. If what I remember is right they wanted to have a child, but they could never conceive one, I don't know what that word means but that is what I have heard it called, not being able to have a baby. I remember sitting in a dark cell when Master Barrow came to the ship. His voice was like honey when he asked for a slave as young as they had, I saw a lot of the others shrink back in what I think may have been fear, but when he came to the cell he took one look at me and said that I would do. I was taken from the cell and Master Soma carried me all the way home to his village in Zalto. When I saw his home I was very surprised by what it looked like, I had never seen a house before. Master Soma introduced me to his wife, Mistress Claire, and she was so beautiful. I had never seen another person with red hair before. She told me that I was to be her and Master Soma's son, I guess back then I looked like a boy. Master Soma is the one that taught me how to write and Mistress Claire taught me how to read. I would remain in their house for four years, I think that would have made me nine. Mistress Claire had a child, a little boy that I think they named Adam. A few weeks later Master Soma was walking around the village with me when a slaver was riding though town and he sold me. I was taken to an Inn where I was stripped of the clothing I use to wear with Master Soma and Mistress Claire. This slaver seemed to be more detailed then the one on the ship. Every imperfection was taken down before I was given ragged brown clothing to dress in. From what I could read from the paper, it said that I was in perfect condition and was able to read and write, I would be brought to a Slave Ring in Ethe before I was bought by Mistress Haley. Odette de Vore Age 5
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:16 pm
Year 188
Mistress Haley Montreal The next person that bought me was Mistress Montreal, I remember her well. She was a very strict woman, I'm not even sure as to why she bought me in the first place, I don't need a reason though, I am a slave and who I serve is not my concern. Mistress Montreal was nice though, if not a bit strict. When she bought me I remember the first words she said to me were "Odette, your posture is crap." before walking so fast I had to run to keep up with her. I think Mistress Montreal was a noble, if not really really rich. She had a mansion and everything. She is were I would get my etiquette lessons. She would stand in a corner or sit on a chair watching me walk around the room with a book or seven on my head, with my shoulders back and my hands clasped in front of me. She would take me into the kitchen to teach me how to cook, and she would teach me how to write properly and the pronunciation of words, he wanted me to speak clearly and distinctly. She also taught me music, how to read it, write it and play it. She would make me play outside in the rain and heat and snow for hours with the excuse "Artwork does not complain. You are to be living art, how can living art be beautiful if it can not beat the elements?" Eventually it would come to be that my best instrument was the harp. Her service to Lady Montreal would end when she was thirteen. A robber broke into the house and was about to kill her mistress. Odette took up a blade and stabbed him right though the heart...the next day Mistress Montreal would sell her back to the slavers.
Odette de Vore age 9
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2016 8:56 pm
Year 193 and 194
Master Lunquin, Master Pearson, and Mistress Landon  I remember having three Masters in two years one time, it was a very rapid and scary thing, and probably the first time in a long time that I felt anything other then duty. The First master during this time was Master Lunquin, He was only my master for two months. It was the first time I have ever been in a house with more slaves then myself. Master Lunquin had twenty four, including me, and it was evenly distributed between males and females- so if I'm right that means twelve female slaves and twelve male slaves. Master Lunquin was a very expensive man, he would go around throwing parties in Ethe for the most esteemed guests and needed all the slaves to set things up every week. But he would loose his house two months after Odette came to work in his house hold. He was not paying his taxes and the bank came, taking his house, He had to sell all of his slaves back in order to get his house back. Master Pearson was the next Master I had that year, I was in his ownership for a year at most. He was a nice man it seemed but he was very cruel when things weren't done as he demanded them to be. It was the first time Odette saw a man killed in front of her, beaten to death for not cooking the food exactly right. Odette started to take over the cooking, learning how to expertly skin animals freshly killed from hunts and cook them perfectly, or as perfect one can cook them on an open fire. It was when her nose bleeds and eyes bleeding started to happen more and more often that Master Pearson sold her back. The first time she had a nose bleed was when she was serving his dinner, he found the blood so offensive he had her hands whipped, and then when this started happening constantly he finally sold her back, stating that she "might be a good experiment for someone to find out how to stop the nose bleeds" Mistress Landon was her last mistress, she was her mistress for a little under ten months. Mistress Landon was a brothel owner who saw Odette and thought her purple eyes and red hair were an odd combination that lords would enjoy looking at. Mistress Landon would have Odette trained in the sexual arts, taught how to please both men and women, Mistress Landon did take notice of the strange nose bleeds and the occasional bleeding from the eye and at first Mistress Landon thought that it was bullying, but when the strange occurrences continued to happen she started looking for cures, Mistress Landon looked for the three months leading up to Odette's debut but when she couldn't Mistress Landon thought that she would be a loss of revenue and sold her to the Cirque de Lune is Lionis.
Odette de Vore age 14
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 12:49 am
Year 195
Master Ansel Gabo Eames Gerrit Master Ansel was my most beloved Master, he was very kind and gentle even if he was a bit odd. Master Ansel preferred to be called "Master Ansel Gabo Eames Gerrit, painter extraordinaire", he only ever hurt me three times and it was because I forgot to call him what he wanted me to call him, however as I continued to stay under his roof he would allow me to call him Master Ansel and he would call me his Muse. He bought me at first in order to be his chef and musician and scribe, as Master Ansel couldn't read or write. I would cook his meals and write his letters and make sure that his bed was made when he awoke. He was a very strange and solitary man but I have not met any other writers in order to compare them, but he seemed slightly depressed and closed off, it took two years for him to get use to my presence as he would always be very jumpy around me before then. In the first month of my Service to Master Ansel I had a nosebleed, a torrent of blood rushed over my mouth and instead of punishing me for ruining the table cloth that my blood dripped upon he instead pulled me into his painting room where he desired to paint my face, he told me that the emotion in my eyes were raw and extraordinary, and that one with such emotion had a possibility to become his inspiration. Looking back on it, maybe he was a little deranged, but he wasn't a bad person so I do not know how to feel about that, he was simply my master.
Odette De Vore, Age 16 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx It was a very weird relationship we had, but I didn't mind it, even looking back on it I don't think I minded it xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx even though he was my master. I would normally not have any feeling about such a thing, but he made me smile quite a bit. Master Ansel had a lover as well, that when he came over I was to call him Master Jameson. master Jameson was a scientist or sorts, but from what I gathered he wasn't a legal scientist. Master Jameson said he liked to study the Mind and Body of subjects to see if the mind and the body were one or separate things, Master Ansel said that Master Jameson was an artist like he was but that Master Jameson used a different type of instrument, and that that instrument was the mind instead of the brush. Master Jameson gave me a Journal to write down my thoughts and he said that whenever he came over that he would like to read what I wrote so long as it was okay with me, and it was interesting when I saw his facial expressions. Sadly Master Jameson would stop coming to Master Ansel's home when I was nineteen, and when I had the opportunity to ask what had happened to Master Jameson, Master Ansel became very upset and I dropped it, I still do not know as to what happened to Master Jameson. But soon all talk of Master Jameson soon stopped as Master Ansel became very depressed and he asked that any time my nose began to bleed or I accidently cut myself while cooking that I come to him so he could paint. He would create sixteen paintings of me, his last one was of me dressed in a black mourning dress, with blood dripping from my nose and eyes. When I was twenty Master Ansel seemed to break from his depression slightly, or maybe he didn't, but he seemed to worry about me and the constant nose bleeds. He came to me one day and told me that he wanted to leave me in the hands of a man some called "the Duke". According to Maser Ansel he was a respected and feared man of noble birth that no one knew much about, only that some called him a monster and others called him an artist. Master Ansel believed that this "the Duke" may be able to help her, so he tracked him down and on a day that he knew "the Duke" was out, he would ride to his mansion and leave me on his front step, and I haven't seen Master Ansel since then, however I have heard that he died, but no one will tell me how.
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Posted: Thu Sep 29, 2016 1:19 am
Year 199
Master Keiron Achmetha  I was twenty when I was dropped off on Master Keiron's doorstep, well maybe dropped off wasn't the right word, but abandoned on his door step isn't the right word either- I am not a child, so maybe left is more correct. Master Ansel said that Master Keiron would be able to help me, and that it was the best place for me to be. thinking about it maybe Master Ansel cared enough about me to not sell me back into the Slave Rings, I recall master Ansel telling me that my good luck wouldn't last forever, that one day I would get a master that wasn't kind in any way, one that would probably end up being the cause of my death...or worse. I was given to Master Achemetha late in year 199 and I have been in his household ever since. Master Achemetha is probably the weirdest and most fearsome master I have ever seen or served, he does strange experiments on people. They give me nightmares some times, but I do not dare voice them to him. I have only been the subject of his um...experiments twice from what I remember. The first one dealt with the strange nose and eye bleeding it wasn't that painful, I didn't scream or complain later, but after a few months of experimentation it was found that leaches help the nose bleeds. The second experiment was worse, I do not remember all of it but it had something to do with exposure to hot and cold. I think the only reason I remember this is because my ability went crazy. I would see things in all red or in all blue, but I haven't been exposed to any more of masters experiments since then, I have seen what he can do with a knife and despite my loyalty to my master I do not want to be under the sharp end of it. Year 200The Empress took over Epsilon and all of the Kingdoms under its control, it didn't worry me to much but I have never seen such hate from the people. Everyone in the village near by seemed to dislike the fact that we had an Empress, but maybe it was because of how she became Empress. According to one of the adventurers that was travelling in the Ashlands the day the Empress came to power they swore they saw the Red Headed Princess being chased down by royal guards, but everyone called him a liar, I kind of wonder if its true. War broke out nine months into the Empresses reign, the Cousins of the former Emperors Mikhail and Apollion, waged war with her highness, and right now the royal forces and Lord Azazel's forces are fighting for the throne. Year 201
Odette de Vore age 22 xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx The Empress was disposed of Not to long ago, according to sources she was killing in the throne room by the new Emperor, xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Azazel, and that his children will become the new princesses and princes, I wonder what Master will do with this new xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx progression in the world. The births of children without wings has gone down now that the Empress is dead too so I'm xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx curious if this was her doing. Year 201, April 3rdMaster Keiron received a letter today from someone, I do not know what it says but he said that we where going into the village tomorrow, I wonder if it is something important, but I will not ask. Year 201, April 4rdMaster took me into the Village today were I was confronted by three men today, they were to touchy for my liking and I did not think master would have enjoyed knowing that they where touching me. I think I killed two of them with the blade I keep hidden in my clothing and I know I injured the last one. Today we went to meet the person who sent the letter, when we entered the house we saw a sickly boy that was shaking and was covered in red spots. I saw this before when I was being trained in the brothel under Mistress Landon's tutelage. A girl I had been bought along side came down with this sickness and I soon after, but her condition got worse while mine got better, and eventually Mistress Landon sold her to a doctor who I later found out was in able to glean any information from her and she died in his care, it saddens me to think about this, but I am sure the boy would be dead soon. Year 201, May 5thMaster sent me out of the house today to collect some items, however I was unable to locate them, when I returned without them he was not mad, it was strange. Year 201, May 6thMaster gave me a day off and I have gone to the Dragon Tear Beach to look for a Sea Serpent for a pet...it is raining. Year 201, June 7th and 8thI left master Keiron's manor for the day, having been given the day off, I have not been feeling well lately, I have been having pains in my stomach the last couple days. I have not been able to find Master Keiron so I thought to go to Mistress Landon in hopes that she would know what to do. When I arrived I was in such pain I could hardly stand. Mistress Landon took me in for the night and gave me the 'sweet flower' for the pain. She let me leave the next day, giving me some of the 'sweet flower' to take if the pain came back. Year 201, July 8thI returned to Mistress Landon's brothel, the pains returning. Mistress Landon helped me take it this time because I was in so much pain and I fell asleep only to wake up to a brothel woman choking me and yelling that I had taken her share of the Opium. I had no idea what Mistress Landon had been having me take, and in my fear I had run away. It did not seem I got far as I awoke in Mistresses private chambers. My head ached and everything seemed to have a circle of light around it. I could hardly keep my eyes open for more then a few seconds. Mistress said she found me a block away, passed out and covered in blood. She suggest I tell my master, but the next I saw him I could not bring myself to do so. Year 201, August 9thI returned to Mistress Landon's brothel today. I had left the Manor about a week ago, unsure of what to do as the pain had returned. I found myself returning to Mistress Landon, once again in pain and she gave me more of the "Sweet Flower". I returned back to the Manor late tonight, master has not been home, and I heard from the servants that he was in Zalto. I chose to do some chores before going to bed. Year 201, August 10th
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