Arranged

Chapter 4

When she awoke her hands were tied to the saddle horn and the reins had been taken out of her posession to be drapped around another saddles horn, and in the quick second she processed all this she decided she would have to get away when the they untied her from her horse. Though she had half a mind to try and get both Ace and the other horse moving she didn't think it would be very effective, so instead she thought she would make conversion "nicely."

"So what's your name?" she said to the guy who had knocked her out

"I'm called Teo, but you will refer to me as Master Teo"

"So what do you intend on doing with me, "master teo"?" Is this for your own enjoyment, are you the devils advocate, or..."

"The money sweetheart it's always about the money and we intend to sell you to the highest bidder whatever they do with you isn't our problem."

"So what if I were to be killed would you even care?"

"Where have you been all your life, you don't seem to have been part of the real world very long, probably lived a sheltered life didn't you? But your right I would love a job where I don't kidnap people for a livng, but I have children and with the kings taxes I couldn't even put food on the table every night until I found this. Taxes spent on such useful things I should remind you like his daily tea parties and silk night gowns. And anyway a lot of the girls come with us willingly because the people who buy them give them clothes, three square meals a day, and often treat them very well which they would rather have over living on the streets."

"Well for the record I'm not one of the willing ones, and I will fight you tooth and nail all the way."

I'm okay with that sweetheart."

"You know I was going to start my own life, be my own person free of my parents."

"Oh well, I just fast tracked it anyway. You would have tried to start a life had found it to expensive and eventually you would be living on the streets or running back to mom and dad where you were obviously unhappy anyways. See? I am improving it."

"You want to know why I ran away from my parents? Because they were trying to force me into a marriage I didn't want. I run away and what do I get? You monkies who are also going to force me onto another man. You have children is this what you would want for them?"

"Leave my children out of this!"

"They're already inthis! What if a slave trader was to get them?! In fact if I get away I'll tell a slave trader where you're children are!" she regreted the sentence as soon as she said it, she would not wish such an evil on any child not even his. And he apparantly wasn't to fond of that statement as well. He pulled his horse to a walk beside Ace, and slapped her hard across the face.

"You will not talk about my children in such ways, and you will be silent until we get to camp or you will pay the consequences!"

She keep silent after that for a while. She really didn't know what to say, and frankly she was ashamed because of what she had said about his children, even if was in a time of anger. It was a couple hours before they reached a huge camp however. Apparently this was where all the kidnappers meet becuase there was a handful more of them, and even more girls, and even a few boys. They didn't give her a chance to escape, almost as if they had read her mind. Two guys came to get her, both huge, and one held her while the other untied her. And soon as she was loose from the saddle and tried to struggle, they pulled her off the saddle and pinned her onto the ground. A third one came to tie her hands behind her back, then tie her feet. They finshed and hoisted her up, but then Teo came by.

"Gag her I don't want to hear another word out of her mouth." They gagged her then threw her, not so gently next to the encampment with the rest of the girls and boys. The night was cold and damp, and they hadn't feed any of them, she didn't sleep, she couldn't. She spent her entire night trying to figure out how she was going to get away, but she could think of any solutions.