I adored Christof and I did everything I could to show him that. As much as I could I talked to him about


    romance. He allowed me to hug and kiss him. Soon, he started to hug and kiss me without any


    prompting. It made me feel nice and normal for a change.


    However, the more I got to know Christof the more he worried me. I could tell something was eating at


    him. Finally I decided to ask him about it, I just had to take the chance. Gathering my courage, I took a


    good guess about what might be bothering him.


    “You might get mad at me, but I just wanted to know. Did the women take you?”


    He sighed and took a piece of food from the bowl for himself. “Yes, I was sent by the Administrators to


    patrol a section along the mountains.


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    My brothers and I were ordered to split up to cover arger territory.


    The big one picked me up and flew off with me. She took me and kept me for a long time,” he


    answered. “She and her sisters needed female children and I seem to make those most of the time.”


    I shuddered, “It must have been horrible. Were you able to talk to your brothers about it?”


    Heughed and started to hit a bamboo like tree that was sitting next to us, “My brothers know nothing


    of my capture and, for the record, I was only treated poorly the first several days. During that time I was


    kept in a cell by myself, but she moved me to a ce with other men after a very short while. She had


    decided to keep me in the mountains long term.” low did you get away?” I gasped.


    “I thought I could escape from them. Finally, the woman in charge told me they owned me; I would


    never escape. The only men my brothers and I found were men they released because they no longer


    needed them. I still tried to get away, that’s when she beat me. I was miserable.” His face fell as he


    talked.


    “She wanted me to live and be happy. My owner, Nu-reeh, said they had decided to take my brothers to


    be with me, the Administrators would send them on a job like I had been sent. I stopped being able to


    get erections; the thought of my brothers living that way upset me and I told them that,” he sighed.


    “I told them if they sent me back, I would do what they wanted. I would keep to an increased coupling


    schedule, give them as many girls as they needed. They just couldn’t do that to my brothers.”


    “The women told me if I did as they asked they would leave us alone.


    They told me to exin the new rules to my brothers. If I started trouble, the women said they would


    destroy me.”


    I sat in stunned silence


    “Your brothers will protect you, Christof,” I said pulling him to face me.


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    “They can’t protect me. No one here can protect anyone. We are owned by the women. We live at their


    discretion. I am as much a ve as you are. When they find I will no Longer perform for them I will be


    deemed useless. They will destroy me,” he said starting to walk back the way we’de.


    “Well, you’re not useless, you can have sex with them. You have sex with me all the time,” I said trailing


    after him trying to process.


    “You don’t understand, Ciara. I was raised to believe I was free, but they let me see the inner workings


    of our world at least a little of it. I listened to the other males they keep in the mountains. They control


    everything.”


    “The women mine and sell the ore that make us a rich. They mark us when we are born, put us


    with others they sense we will get on well with. As we grow, they watch us to make sure we do the job


    they set out for us. The Administrators and the General talk to them and hand their edicts down to us,”


    he continued at a brisk pace back talking angrily.


    “I cannot preform for them, I cannot live like this. Let them destroy me.”


    “Wait a God damned minute,” I said stopping.


    Christof turned to look at me quizzically. “You are speaking the wrongnguage, Ciara,” he said.


    “I’m cursing you,” I shouted angrily in hisnguage, “I’m sorry it’s not good enough for you, but


    sometimes that’s how it is. You can’t justy down and die because you don’t like it. How would you


    feel if I said that to you? I am a ve, I was raised free, and I’m doing just fine. You can’t leave me. I


    care for you. Your brothers care for you,” tears were streaming down my face by now. I knew a


    coupling wasing up for them. “You have to talk to your brothers,” I cried to him. “You have to do


    what you are supposed to. Please, don’t leave me.”