All Alone

Silver:

"You don't know what mess you've gotten yourself into. You think you can just make me look bad in front of the king?" the matron barked. "I have had girls killed for far less. I'm sure his majesty will understand."

I gulped when she said this because something told me this was not an empty threat. I had seen the things this woman put the girls through, the very insensitive way she brushed off the girls who had been physically and emotionally hurt by the patrons they had been forced to please for the night and the heartless way she berated and punished the girls whose patrons reported them to not have been as good as they wanted.

Her daily announcements were almost very degrading. She reminded the girls they were there because of the crimes they had committed, so they deserved everything they were getting. It was quite sad to imagine that someone who may have been framed for a crime they did not commit would have to face being in a harem like this.

I walked backward as the