Ever wonder how slaves felt?
I don’t.
About a month and a half ago, I got a very quick and dirty lesson. I won’t go into much detail, as it would risk things I cannot speak of for fear of my life, but I’ll give you a short and sweet version. Piper has been my protector, my guardian, for some time now. Recently, I turned to another to fill certain parts of this position in my life. It lasted a week, maybe two. See, he owed favors to a rather powerful individual… the same individual I would have loved to put in a shallow grave. That individual did not appreciate my tone with him, and decided to call in the largest of these favors in order to take control of this Guardianship over me. The downside is that, in some ways (though it seems not quite as horribly as I had originally imagined), this caused that position to become more of a Master-Slave arrangement than the mutual partnership it once was.
That night, I was beaten. Forced to realize the difference in how things would be handled going forward. Luckily, I’m a pretty good actress. I can pretend that I take no issue with the things I am told, and I can keep him happy enough. My real concern is that some of the things he has me do put me very much in harm’s way. On the other side of that, though, he is definitely a much more powerful ‘guardian’ than those I have had in the past. So I suppose it can work in my favor as well.
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On another note, I went out of town with him a couple weeks ago. We traveled to Raleigh to take in an art showing they had going on, and meet with others of his society. It was a pretty pleasant experience, really, and I saw a lot of oddness. Two mean tried to rob the gallery while we were there. I got to handcuff one, and helped talk him down a bit until Charlie came in and went all crazy man on him. I also spoke to the head individual there about my interactions with their society, beyond what most know. He was a little taken aback, told me what I already know as far as how I should not tell many people, if anyone else at all, and also made it clear that he feels many of the stories that surround that part of my life are very much Myth.
I suppose that is something we shall simply have to wait out and see.
Sorry for the long wait on updating again.
Talk to you all later.