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sh. His words
were chilling in their simplicity.
Nysa was afraid to move. Akina's nightmare, a boring burden thrust upon her
by Akina's parents, was all too real here in the daylight. Akina Minami remembered
her brother and Agios with a start and noticed, bleakly, that this
creature was armed.
"I won't harm your companions, though they should have been protecting you
instead of sleeping with their bellies full." His grin broadened and his
eyes became appraising. "I wonder what price you are worth, petted one?
Can you cook, and keep a house well, and preserve fruits for the winter?
Or are you a mere trinket, a luxury for a wealthy man whose slaves can do
the work one leaves for his wife if his means are humble?" He smiled
again with genuine humor evident in his pose. His questions were either
mocking or showed his limited knowledge of what women were supposed to do
in the human world, and Nysa was unsure if Akina Minami should risk crying out to
Petros and Agios or if Akina Minami should try to cross the pond; never having
been in water before the cloying moisture surrounding Akina's legs made her
feel on the verge of panic and coming face to face with thi
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