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 Posted: Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:28 pm
It was late.
A pale half moon glimmered intermittently on water, cut off every so often by a drifting cloud. Hooves, small hooves, kicked up puffs of red dust as their owner approached the water. The slave water Fresh, clean but with inconvenient mire leading to it, one of many just like it. Good, but not good enough for Katilenuck. The small hooves left the dust and sank into the mud. One after the other they were pulled out with a sucking noise and another pace was taken. The day had been long, they always seemed long since she’d come here. After a drink and some grazing and then sleep. Blessed sleep and the dreams that came with it.
After an eternity the blue-gold found herself fetlock-deep in the cool water. Looking down she saw a tired face and the moon. Another cloud scudded by and there was just the face.
Eilir swished her tail at a late-flying insect and bent to drink.
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 6:24 am
 Pale moon light lit the Katilenuck heard lands. It was late. Zara'ora was finally finished for the day. All her tasks had been completed and her master had dissmissed her. Now it was time to fill her empty belly. Zara'ora walked swiftly and silently as not to arouse the other heard members, she didn't wish another beating the feared them.
Slowly the slave water and grass came into view. Slaves were not to touch the rich grass the Katilenuck ate. Grass now was just grass, just a way to survive in an unforgiving home. A small bae filly was there already. Zara'ora remembered her from the slave sale not to long ago it was Zara's job to take care of the slaves when Ra'lanr couldn't be bothered or was angry.
Zara continued her approach and called "Hello," quiet but loud enough for the young bae to hear her. She stood beside the small watering hole and lowered her head to drink. Zara was more comfortable around other slaves than she was other Katilenuck.
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Thu Jul 12, 2007 10:10 am
The soft voice was know to her, comforting almost. Eilir raised her head from the water and turned about with a meek smile. "Hey, how're ye' doing t'night? Ye' master been okee t ya t'day?" She remembered the purple stallion too clearly for her tastes. A nasty piece of work as her mother would have said.
She missed being around the other Bae. Having another of her kind close by had been a small taste of home, one that she felt exposed without. Perhaps her mistress would get another slave soon, maybe even another Bae and then she'd have somebody to whisper with as she went about her tasks. A filly or a colt of around her age perhaps would be nice. There again, an adult like the pink-black would be nice. Somebody to hide behind when things got too frightening.
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Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 2:56 pm
"As well as can be expected," she said quietly with a slight sigh. Ra'lanr was often tough and hard to deal with. "My master is the same..." she said letting the sentence trail as she looked down into the sligtly murky waters.
Zara'ora felt sorry for the young bae. She had given up feeling the same for herself.
"Has our master been kind?" inquired the adult bae who lacked self confidence
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Sat Jul 28, 2007 5:28 am
Eilir sighed and shrugged. "Ye' mean mistress Hera? Oh..." The dappled Jala was... well her owner and that was bad enough. She didn't really know how other slaves were treated to draw parallels. "She's been alrigh' I suppose,” the blue-gold decided with another shrug. “She does'na hurt me and she see to it that I've enough food and water t' keep me healthy each day..." The filly looked down at her reflection and sighed. "I wish mama and papa were here... No, no I wish I was with them." She couldn't stand the thought of her parents being forced into labour as she was.
The blue-eyed Bae raised her head again and turned to look at the pink and black. "Does it ever get any easier?" she asked with an attempt at a smile.
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 12:39 pm
Zara'ora nodded understanding, she had gotten used to it over many years. "That's better than some others are treated." she told the filly. Zara too was thankful she was treated well. She had heard rumors from other slaves of being starved and beaten. Zara'ora shivered briefly at the unplesant thought.
"It does." she said "When you get older the tasks will become easier and too you will get new tasks that you will be able to carry out."
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:15 pm
"New tasks?... Ah see... I dunna if ah like the sound o' that though," the filly admitted, her delicate wings twitching lightly in nervousness. "Ah heard sometimes mares get used f'... ye' know, f' pleasures like." She wasn't quite sure what these pleasure were yet but, from what she'd heard whispered, she was very glad firstly to belong to a mare and secondly not to be exceptionally pretty. It sounded like a hard life being a very pretty slave and she didn’t want a had life. She’d never asked for much. For anything come to that. Maybe that was why she hadn’t ended up with anything, perhaps the Gods favoured those who stepped up and asked for the things they wanted.
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Posted: Tue Jul 31, 2007 10:19 am
"I'm sure you wont get used for such things. You have a mistress." She tried to ease the fillies mind, she had to often heard of that happening, but there were often punishments for the jala that did so and if there were offspring they were killed instantly. It was horrid.
"Stay quiet and listen to you mistress and she won't let harm come to you. Jala are very possessive of slaves like us." she explained at least the ones she had been around were. Zara prayed the young foals fears were never going to come to life. She wouldn't be able to help.
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Sat Aug 04, 2007 8:38 am
Eilir nodded her small head slowly and stirred slowly at the water with one forehoof. "Yes, I been behavin' m'self so far an' I don't mean t' change my attitude. I guess it's better t' have a misters who controls ye' a lot t' one who'll let anything happen t' y' an' not s' much as ruffle a feather."
The filly sighed again and dipped her head to sip at the water. A moment later, another thought occurred to her and she raised it again. "I head some other slaves talking about breeding... Does that happen much? Ye' owner deciding who you're to have foals with?" She'd never thought about such things before... Well she had, she'd played games with the other foals that had lived near her; pretending families and such but no more. Once she was a grown-up mare would her mistress decide to put her with a stallion and make a profit from the children of the union? Perhaps she ought to just stop thinking all together; thinking seemed to lead only to worrying possibilities of late.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 3:54 pm
Zara'ora smiled "Thats good," she wouldn't want anything to happen to the sweet filly, Slave life was hard on young foals at first, having to be broken in and all. Zara'ora remembered what it was like when as a foal she was brought here. The bae nodded in agreement. "It is indeed, just be glad your mistress doesn't beat you either."
She thought... yes they had been talking lately hadn't they. Zara'ora sighed no use in pretending it didn't happen. She was in that current position too. "It does happen sadly, but not as often as you may think." she said "I myself am in that current position." She told the filly "My master wishes a union between myself and another non slave bae stallion, for bright colors and something interesting to sell." Being her master was the purple slave trader he had the ambition to make a larger profit.
Ra'lanr had chosen the stallion for his rainbow colored pelt, while Zara was rather dull and simple back with pink designs. Zara’ora did actually like the stallion but knew it would be rare if she ever saw him again after a birth of foals if she ever had any.
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:15 pm
Eilir relaxed a little. "Well that's a bit of good news at least," she said with a slight smile and a dip of her head. "I hope that..." What could she say? "I hope he's a nice stallion and I hope he looks after you well... Y've been nice t' me Zara, can I call ye' Zara?, and I wouldn't like t’ think that you were being treated badly... Well any more badly than any of us are anyway."
If she could grow up to be a bit like the black and pink mare she might just be happy with herself. Yes, being free would be nicer but if that wasn't going to happen she'd just have to make the best of it. She could make friends and maybe some day mistress Hera would choose another slave to match her with, maybe even one she was friends with so that they could love foals together. Perhaps life would be something close to alright if she played it right, if she was good, if she was lucky.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 4:39 pm
Zara'ora smiled "He is kind anf gentle with a good heart." she told the filly. Zara'ora did like him. which was the hard thing about it. She couldn't be free like him. At first like all she had worried he would be like some of the jala. But he hadn't and Zara had been so grateful for that.
She was glad she had made the young foal feel better about herself. She smiled softly again "Of course you can call me Zara, Eilir," she was glad for the concern shown to her. "I'll be fine, if you get into trouble come find me alright." she would try and help the young foal best she could.
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:26 pm
The filly nodded her head and gave the other Bae a grateful smile. “Thank ye’. Same to you; I might only be little now but I’ll be big and strong like my mother one day, I know I will.” That strength would probably serve her well as a slave; she’d be able to put up with harsher treatment and longer hours than frailer creatures. Yes. She would survive, no matter how much it might be frightening and how much it might hurt at times she would survive and live a life that her parents would be proud of.
“We may never escape Zara,” the gold-blue filly said softly, “but perhaps we can find bits of freedom in our friendships… Will you be one of mine? Friends I mean.” She thought the answer would probably be yes but she wanted to ask all the same just to be sure.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 5:57 pm
Zara'ora nodded aproving of the filly’s strength "I know you will become strong." she mare said softly "Maybe one day you could be free." She told the filly. It had happened. Rarely. But still, some slaves had escaped their enslavement. She hoped this young one would be the next. Zara long time ago had given up hoping for freedom. Maybe that was why it wouldn't happen to her.
The pink mare knew that fact well and did agree with what the filly said. "Of course" she told Eilir "You didn't even have to ask." Zara'ora added after "Friendship, love, and kind emotions are some things that cannot be taken by those who are masters."
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Ice_Dragon_Demon
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Posted: Mon Aug 13, 2007 7:15 am
Eilir smiled shyly and waded over to give the adult Bae a nudge. “Thanks Zara,” she said softly, raising her blue eyes to meet the black’s pink. “I’ll do m’ best to remember that.” Somehow the blue-gold doubted she would be one of the lucky few, very very few, who managed to get away and stay away. She’d heard what happened to those who tried it and got caught. She didn’t want that to be her. Better alive and a slave than being torn to shreds by a ring of stallions for trying to get away.
“I should probably go now,” the butterfly-winged filly said after a moment of silence. “Mistress Hera will be wanting me back before she goes to sleep I expect… It was good talking to ye’ Zara. It’s nice t’ know I’ve got one friend here already.”
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