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Chapter 5

At dinner time I'm joined by Meami again. Can't say that I love her company but I wont complain because it's still better than nothing. She takes a seat next to me on the ground keeping her cloth secured between her legs. It's clear that they don't wear any underwear by the way the cloth hangs. Showing off most of their legs and hips just hanging between their legs at the front and back. Hers is tied like all the elders with a huge knot by her belly button. Covering most of her back and front, the younger females wear their cloths different, tied behinde their back crossing over their breasts in a type of support way holding each one in a cup showing most of their back and front. The colours vary from brown to even a light pink, all pastel colours nothing too striking. The cloth that they changed me into is no longer a white brown pastel colour, my adventures in the woods shows this much by the mud patches on it that has now dried, it almost looks like someone threw me with shit. My hair is still a knotted mess and yes I stink. Even I can smell me. And it's not pleasant. Meami pushing a bowl towards me with a piece of bread, and like the pig I am I devour it in less than a minute. Choking on bigger pieces of meat which causes my nose to burn as the sauce threatens to come out of my nose. I don't slow down however and Meami just sits and laughs at me like this is fucking funny. It's not. It's degrading, inhumane and wrong on so many levels. I'm eating where I shit and piss. The smell coming from me should take away any appetite one has, it doesn't but it should.

"Ready to learn some more Athena?" She asks still with a smile on her face. I raise my eyebrows at her, swallowing down the last bit of my meal before I answer her. "The story?"

She frowns before shaking her head. "Not a story, child. It's the truth about our people. Our history." I want to roll my eyes at her and I almost do catching myself just in time. You and your people can burn in hell for all I care. I wanted too add that too but I'm too full and like a little baby as soon as my stomach is full my eyes grow heavy and I'm already wanting to go to sleep, even if I know it will be another night of uncomfortable positions and joint pain in the morning. "You need to learn Athena. How can you accept us if you do not learn?" My blood boils at her words instantly and I want to hurt her.

"Are you serious?" I ask her sharply I don't say her name, she and them they don't deserve to be acknowledged. She opens her mouth but I'm too quick cutting her off. "You kidnap me and then chain me like an animal and you expect me to accept you? To accept this?" I lift my hand up in the air pointing to our surroundings. "They don't even chain dogs like this on earth and if they did they would receive a fine or jail time. It's inhumane."

"This is all new, to all of us. We have not taken human mates for a long time. There are dangers out there that even scares us Athena." She says looking towards the edge of the woods where my failed escape attempt happened. "You ran into the woods without protection. Without even thinking, if not for Toraq and the power that radiates of off his beast you would have been eaten the minute you stepped foot in there. You are not mated or marked. Nothing would have kept the Daroo from devouring you."

"So you chain me to a pole instead?" I ask clenching my jaw together.

"Yes Athena, we chain you instead. This is common practice to us, especially to juveniles who fail to submit. I told you that you must learn first. We would have left you in the hut to do as you please until we could trust you fully. You chose to run." She said a matter of factly. And her words just pisses me off more.

"Anybody in my situation would have done the same. When kidnapped you run, you do not shack up with the kidnapper." I spit back

She smiles again and the look disgusts me even more. It doesn't look right on her face. It looks forced and crooked. Like the action is unfamiliar to her. "On earth mabey Athena, but not here. Glentis is home to all creatures good dnd bad."