The tops of the drums were shaped like three small bongos. I tapped on them experimentally until I had


    a good rhythm going.


    ying these little drums wasplicated, but I Loved music. The only part of high school I liked was


    band ss. The pitch each drum made was different and that took some getting used to. I got


    engrossed in what I was doing. I looked up to see Fuji swiveling her hips to the beat. I spent the rest of


    the morning tapping out different beats on the drums while the girls danced.


    A bell rang suddenly and everything stopped. Fuji started to run out.


    She turned around abruptly grabbing my hand and pulling me with her.


    “Where are we going?” I asked her trying to keep up.


    “Our Masters areing to feed us, they don’t like to wait,” she said.


    I noticed my owner’s mark on the floor in the room she took us into. A kneeling ce was set up in


    front of it. A chair and a small table were in front of me. I followed Fuji’s lead and kneeled down waiting,


    no one was talking.


    I heard the tamping of feet as the men started toe in. A set stopped in front of me, but I kept my


    head down.


    “Hello, Ciara,” I heard Christof say as he brushed my cheek. I looked up at him and smiled.


    Christof was dirty, it Looked like he had had a rough morning. His hands were clean, though. He fed


    me from a bowl until I thought I would burst. I never refused what he gave me, I just chewed really


    slowly.


    Unlike my other owners he stopped feeding me and didn’t fuss at me.N?velDrama.Org (C) content.


    Leaning down he Laughed quietly in my ear. “Follow me,” he said.


    I followed his heels out into the courtyard and out the door in the wall. le’re outside the Keeper’s


    compound, Ciara. You can look around if you’d like to, none of the other Warriorse out here,” he


    said.


    “Are we allowed to be out here, Christof?” I asked curiously.


    We walked into what I would have considered a forest at home, along a little path. The nts were all


    different and I looked at them fascinated.


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    “Yes, I can take you out here. Most Warriors juste and feed their ve a mid day meal. I thought


    you might be curious to see outside thepound,” he said watching me with interest.


    “Yes, I’d love to see this,” I said inspecting a bright yellow leaf growing from the ground.


    “Iam curious, also,” he told me.


    I asked simple questions at first, the names of nts and about things around us. He didn’t seem to


    mind telling me, so I got bolder and asked about the.


    “I don’t know the whole, Ciara,” heughed. “The Administrators ced me in this vige as a


    child and I have never lived another ce.”


    “Where was the ve auction? Is it on this world?” I asked hesitantly.


    “Do you know how I got there?”


    “My brothers and I took a transport to the edge of the mountains. There is a ce there our leaders


    allow the portals. We took the one that leads to the ve auction. It is in center space on a small


    neutral. We were told the portals can make a human sick if they are awake, so my brothers


    made sure you slept,” he told me.