Her sharp elven chin rested on her slender legs. "I caused more harm to her house, living and eating food, than I would have in perishing, so I was permitted to persist."

I still couldn't comprehend a parent doing that to her child. She had bound her as... well, a sex slave, and threw her intentionally at a man. And by the way, Amura had acted, the hope had been I would violently and aggressively rape her until she found a way to murder me. That was unconscionable to me.

"And now... as a slave... I shall be made to bear all that will be of my people." She murmured,...