Dark noticed the presence of a Free woman as she walked on the docks, and followed her until he lost her from sighs... Dark then listening to the Gong, made his path down stairs.
The Visiting Free Woman: Tal my Lord
Dark paused as he was now looking toward the Free woman, and listened to her greetings...Dark Raised his right forearm and lifted his palm "Tal Lady, welcome to Farnacium, i am Dark,
Administrator of this island, how may i help you?"
The Visiting Free Woman: I am Elisabeth and I was hoping to see what your fair city offers in the case of Merchants Wares
The Visiting Free Woman: and possibly a kajira to serve me
Dark kept his gaze locked over the Free Woman and then acknowledged her words with a light nodding movement of his head as he replied to her...."Maybe i shall first try to direct you to a shoes
artisans, Lady Elisabeth?"
The Visiting Free Woman: yes of course,
The Visiting Free Woman: Lead the way, my Lord
Dark smiled as he listened to the answer of the Free woman and then asked "may i know what is the place you call home?"
The Visiting Free Woman: I call Sardar my home my Lord
Dark was listening to her as she announced the Sardar was her home....Dark simply then turned and motioned a way, "This way please"
The Visiting Free Woman: This place is fair teeming with wares I require. I thank you my Lord.
The Visiting Free Woman smiles gratefully
Dark walked into the shop and then checked around if Lady Vena would be there working...Dark muttered slightly and then turned his gaze over the Free woman as he was listening the way she was
calling him, and raised a brow "You told me you were from the Sardar? it is a long way from the Sardar to Farnacium, did you walked all this way with your feet bare and naked?"
The Visiting Free Woman glares at him for insinuating such a thing
The Visiting Free Woman: Of course not! I merely have traveled so long that my shoes have worn through to the point where they are unwearable.
The Visiting Free Woman: Therefore I require new footwear, to make the home journey
Dark smiled softly as he then commented, "it is such a misery, Lady Elisabeth, i hope your bare foot are not hurt from walking naked on the warm and hot ground of Farnacium, we should go visit
the Physician Lady that would apply on them some cream
The Free Woman knelt at the entrance to the store and knelt quietly, wondering who her Master was talking to, and when she could beg to greet.
The Visiting Free Woman: Yes, lets. Then my poor baking feet will feel fine once again Lead on my Lord
Dark's kajira blinked... Bare feet? On a Free? She must have heard wrong. What Free except one that wanted to be enslaved, would have bare legs?
The Visiting Free Woman notices a kajira waiting patiently for her Master outside the door
The Visiting Free Woman: Tal girl
Dark listened to the familiar bells of his girls and then turned to look at who the girl could be, observing Lara kneeling by the entrance.....Dark then turned his gaze over the Free woman once
again as she commented about her poor baked feet and then replied "would you mind letting me see your feet, i would not like you to walk more then you already did, if your feel can't , show me
your feet Lady Elisabeth"
The Visiting Free Woman: oh very well then
Dark's kajira went white....
The Visiting Free Woman lifts her right foot to show the Lord
Dark crouched, and picked with care the feet of the woman in his hand, checking the right one, with attention, for any hurt, and paused his eyes on the details of the skin, letting his thumb
softly caressing the skin "does it hurt?"
The Visiting Free Woman gasps a little with pain
The Visiting Free Woman: Yes, its painful to be touched
Dark turned his gaze over his girl and then commented "Lara, would you mind going to find Lady McMasters, i believe we need her assistance here
Dark's kajira: "Yes, my Master" she replied weakly, turning quickly to locate her Mistress
The Visiting Free Woman sits on the counter to get off of her aching feet
Dark in fact snapped his fingers and pointed toward the slave and in a movement of his fingers instructing her to go
Dark's kajira: "My Mistress..." she gasped, shocked to turn around and see her behind her.
Dark's Companion was clutching a long dark robe and tutting about something, muttering under her breath about doors not being made the way they should. She then sees Lara sitting outside the shop
of the Dress Maker and says quietly to the girl "Are you in Serve Girl?" she says to her slave. The Lady then looks inside the shop and is taken a little aback by Sir Dark's kneeling seemingly
"Greetings" she says flatly
The Visiting Free Woman: Tal Lady
Dark's kajira: "I am not, my MIstress." She barely breathes the words.
Dark released the foot and then grabbed the other one as he noticed the Free woman had taken place onto the counter....Dark then looked over the foot and once again used his thumb, caressing the
soft skin slowly, before to slowly raised his hand from her feet to her bottom leg under the knee, "Does that Hurt?"
Dark's Companion hears Lara and then says quietly to the girl "Are my eyes deceiving me, or does the Administrator appear to be giving the Lady a foot massage!" she asks her slave.
Dark turned his gaze over his shoulder as he showed a bright smiles to his companion and commented "ohh Lady McMasters, i was looking for you, it seem we do have a Lady here, walking around
without shoes, and in need of help, i am sure you will be very helpful as a Woman like you know well enough about Free women and bare naked feet, do you?"
Dark's Companion felt her face contort with her own confusion of the situation. For it nearly confounded the Lady McMasters to even dream of asking what their Administrator was up to now.
Dark's kajira: "My MIstress is not seeing things." She was very quiet indeed, and did not say any more.
The Visiting Free Woman gasps a little with pain saying "Oh by the deities, it pains me much!"
Dark's Companion looks at the Administrator with a strange confused look, she then looks at the woman and then back to her slave Lara. Her final look landed on the Lady again. "May I ask… and,
forgive my rudeness Lady, but may I ask where are your shoes?" she said with a frowned expression.
The Visiting Free Woman: My shoes have dissolved and become unwearable overtime Lady with travel from my home of Sardar
Dark slowly released the foot of the woman and then stood back on his feet, he had been able to already get enough to think about and then turned to look at his companion "Indeed, i asked the
Lady same question, can you imagine the poor creature walking her path from the Sardars to Farnacium with her feet bare naked"
Dark's kajira wondered where the Lady's chaperone was... But then, she knew her Master would have already delt with that issue....
Dark's Companion looked at her slave Lara and wondered if she was starting to see through 3 very thick veils... and her concealment hood.... she then looked back at the Lady and then said...
"Forgive me Lady, You are a Free Woman, and you have enough material in that dress you have to make something that would cover yourself, how on earth did you get here without shoes?" she said
quietly
The Visiting Free Woman: By ship of course, Lady
Dark's Companion shakes her head and then says to Sir Dark "Have you seen the Lady Vena, I need to drop a few things here needless to say, I will leave a note for her... the tear on this robe is
none too obvious" she then took a few steps into the shop and set down the robe on the counter
Dark looked over his shoulder and then listening to Lady McMasters, commented, "i trust that the Lady Elisabeth need some rest, after such a long travel with feet bare naked, and at the
Administrator's office will be a good place to rest, There is a room set there for people to rest"
The Seamstress Lady is a bit surprised when she sees the Lady McMasters outside of her shop but even moreso when the woman goes inside. Blinking curiously Venaeya hastily follows, wondering how
her shop got opened in the first place when she made sure to lock it up but, when she spots the Administrator, she's sure that's probably the reason why. "Tal Administrator, Tal Ladies."
Dark's kajira noted the Lady that headed towards the shop, staying silent as she approached, thiking that her greeting would interupt the dealings
Dark's Companion heard the Administrator and then looked at him slowly
The Visiting Free Woman: Why thank you, my Lord. I will gratefully accept your humble offering of a place to rest
The Visiting Free Woman: Tal Lady
The Seamstress Lady: "My...lord?" Venaeya says curiously, giving the woman an odd look. "Where are you from, Lady?"
The Visiting Free Woman: The Sardar, Lady
Dark's Companion tilted her head to one side to the Administrator just as the Lady Vena came into her shop. Her look to the Administrator was one that he knew, it was one of …. what are you up to
now… kind of looks.
Dark smiled as he looked over Lady Vena stepping in and raised his right forearm before to lift his palm and replied "Of course, my Lord, i am not but a Lord to some women, aren't i, Lady Vena?"
Dark's Companion chuckles
The Seamstress Lady: "I have been to the Sardar for the fairs and never have I heard anyone addressed in such a manner and you most certainly are not, Administrator. At least not to us women,
only to slaves."
The Visiting Free Woman: I am sorry but I must've misheard you Lady. What are you insinuating?
The Visiting Free Woman glares suspicously at the Lady Vena
Dark pointed at the Free woman's feet and then commented "well, Lady Vena, the poor Lady here is having her feet all naked from killing her shoes during her long travel from the Sardars....she
may then legitimately call me , my Lord, isn't that just correct way for her to call me?"
The Seamstress Lady: "I am insinuating nothing, simply answering a question asked by my Administrator. He is lord to no free woman."
The Seamstress Lady shrugs at the next question from the Administrator, not caring one way or the other. "Well I am sure the Lady McMasters is a better judge on these things, Sir. Afterall, I am
only a low caste woman."
Dark's Companion shakes her head a little at the facade and then smooths the robe out on the counter. She then takes out a quill from the side and writing on a piece of paper she states where the
rip is on the robe and how much she is willing to pay for the repairs. Her attention always and fully on the Lady with no shoes.
The Free Woman: It is my mistake, then to mistake my customs with yours, for I am tired and need a place to rest
Dark nodded his head and then supported her last words "I will show you where to rest Lady, please follow me while you can"
The Seamstress Lady: "Do all those from the Sardar adress men as my lord or is itsimply you, Lady? I do find myself quite...fascinated by your ah, customs."
The Free Woman: It is the custom of the Sardar Lady
The Seamstress Lady snorts softly before shuffling around her counter so that she can start her day of work.
The Free Woman: Of course Administrator, lead on
Dark smiled brightly as he lead the path to the Administrator's hall
Dark's Companion she then pulls out her pouch and places one coin on their, a copper coin, she then then turns to the Lady with no shoes and says very matter of factly "You will not mind whilst
we ask you a few questions then Lady perhaps at the Administrators office as to how you came here, who is your protector, assuming you are a woman that thinks of herself as a Free Woman and would
not travel alone, also who will vouch for you, and you family, we will send a note to them, in the Sardars you say?" she then looks at the Administrator and says "I believe we have a slave in
Free clothing and I am willing to claim this to the Magistrate, if I am wrong then I will make my apologies Sir"
The Visiting Free Woman: of course not Lady
The Visiting Free Woman: once I've rested
Dark's Companion chuckles and looks at the Administrator as she knows exactly where the Lady is being led.
The Free Woman: I will gladly answer any questions you have
Dark turned slightly as he looked over Lara and snapped his fingers, "Lara, prepare some gruel and fresh water, i want to see you at the Administrator office in no time to say beast"
Dark's Companion looks now back at the Lady Vena and says "I will come to see you in the morning Lady, perhaps my robe will be ready then?" she says.
Dark reached for his keys ring and then picked one from it, as he soon walked toward the gates in front and unlocked them before to motion the Lady the path to follow "in Here Lady Elisabeth"
Dark paused as she entered and then closed the gate right behind her
Dark locked the gate and then placed the keys ring back to his belt
The Visiting Free Woman: It is simple but will suffice. Thank you Administrator
Dark: you are most welcome Lady, *Said Dark as he offered her a smile, thinking that the Free woman might have run hitting her on the head while traveling across Thassa* "I will have a slave to
come give you food and water, so you can rest with a full belly,"
The Free Woman: Thank you
Dark's kajira held the tray above her head, offering the gruel and water to her Master. "Your gruel and water, Master. This girl hopes it pleases you this day." She felt strange saying the words,
matching gruel to her Masyer's diet...
Dark turned and looked over his slave as he narrowed his gaze and walked straight to her, slapping the back of her head "not My gruel, slut! nor My Water, but all this is for the Free Woman
inside, this room" *As he pointed toward the Free woman that apparently goes on the bed easily, and started to find her place comfortable in the small room"
The Visiting Free Woman sits up smelling food
Dark's kajira cringed as he hit her, knowing that he had ordered the food for the Free Woman, yet only acting as he himself had taught her to do. "yes, my Master. This girl begs forgiveness for
being a stupid beast" she said quietly, easing the food down to her chest height and moving so as to push the food through the bars of the prison using a space provided for just this sort of
transaction.
The Visiting Free Woman: thank you stupid beast
The Visiting Free Woman bends with her knees retrieving...a bowl of GRUEL!!
Dark turned his gaze over Lara and laughed at the Free Woman's words, "You heard that mine, you stupid beast!"
Dark's kajira: "Yes, my Master. This girl apologies again for its stupiditiy. It must have been really dull witted, my Master."
The Visiting Free Woman: I believe a mistake has been made, Administrator. Your slut has given me food worthy only of slaves
Dark's kajira hung her head, though not all of her body language suggested she was at all remorseful.
The Visiting Free Woman: You girl, get me proper food!
Dark's kajira: "Me, Mistress? " She looked to the caged Woman.
Dark turned his gaze over the Free Woman and then replied to her "no mistake, Lady, as i ordered her to bring you gruel and water, i could have leave you inside without anything"
The Visiting Free Woman: what madness is this! I expected real food and you give me slaves gruel!
The Visiting Free Woman: This is most definitely the last time I ever come to your city!
The Seamstress Lady guffaws at the woman's esclamation before arching a brow in Lady McMaster's direction.
Dark's kajira wondered what woud happen to the woman if she did turn out to be a runaway slave. Whould she be hamstrung, or would her Master enforce the law in full, and toss her on the rubbish
heap, arms and legs bound, for the sleen and vermin to chew on? She shuddered at that thought, having heard a tale told of that death in Landa...
Dark looked over the Free Woman and then replied "Well, we shall then let a Magistrate decide about what is madness, and what is not, until then....." *Dark snapped his fingers and pointed toward
the bed has his tone became less warm and more firm "you will rest and eat what is given to you"
The Visiting Free Woman rests on the bed, not because some delusional Administrator told her to, but because she is tired
Dark took a few step back and then turned as he snapped his fingers again and pointed to his boot, "heel, slut, harta"
The Seamstress Lady: "Well it seems we were not needed afterall, Lady."
Dark's Companion walked into the Council chambers where the cells were for prisoners awaiting trial. She was not surprised to see the Lady that had been in the shop, now behind those very same
bars. The Lady looked to see the Girl Lara sitting kneeling near the bars apparently offering gruel and water to the woman behind them. The Administrator standing not far away from the outside of
the cell. And the woman's cries and shouting of protest from behind the intricately engraved wrought iron cell doors. The Lady then nodded back to the Lady Vena and said with a slight finality of
the situation "It appears the Lady is tired" she says and then speaks to the Administrator "We should sit down and work on the paperwork for this Sir, I would like to send a note to the Sardars
to ask for her family or someone that could vouch for her.
Dark reached for Lara's hairs and took a hold of them with a tight and firm grip, listening to his companion speaking as he replied "well, i was expecting nothing else but having this be done, we
shall have Lady Cora preparing such document."
Dark's kajira gasped again, his fingers coiling her hair in his fist. She wondered why he had taken a liking for hurting her, then remembered that it was at least only hair, and would grow
back....
Dark's Companion gave a gentle incline to the Administrator and looked down now at her slave. the Lady was never accustomed to seeking to protect a slave and she was always the first to shave the
hair off a slave that displeased her, but she had seen the Adminsitrator grabbing her property like that more too often "Sir, why do you hold my slave so?" she said quietly "Has the girl
displeased you?"
Dark then pointed toward the beast and then commented "and i would like your beast, my companion to be punished for guessing that i would ever have her preparing gruel to give it to serve it to
her Master"
Dark's Companion now nodded in understanding
The Seamstress Lady laughs softly at the words before tossing a hand in the air. "Well I do have work to attend to so I wish you both well."
