TOO CLOSE!

"fucking animal, betrayer of the kingdom!" a man shout while throwing a rock to a defenseless girl on the street.

this is a violence. yet, people only stand and laughing at the poor girl that tied on the tree. 

"i-im sorry! i will not stealing anymore! mercy on me!" the girl plead for mercy and crying while her forehead is streaming blood.

"let's cut her arm!", "kill her!", "stupid bitch, how dare she stealing from us!", "we already kind enough to let you live here you animal!", various shout can be heard. it seems this child is an orphan of beast-kin, the cat tribe. she look thin and frail. it seems she is hungry and stealing something.

"n...nho please! im sorry!" she peed herself, her leg tremble and her skin turn pale.

"are you marking your territory now huh, hahahaaha."  the crowd laughing at the poor sight of the girl.

the one guy from the crowd moving forth. his body looks like of a warrior, big and full of scar here and there. his face look's like a bandit and his grin is unsettling. in his back a bastard sword is hanging.

"heh, this bitch could work." he then turn into the stall owner that got stealed.

"hey you, this girl basically yours, right?"

"huh?"

"imma buying her."

"what do you mean by that, we here going to kill this fucking animal."

he stare deeply into the owner. "im going to make her my slave, you know what i mean right?" while he doing an obscene gesture of moving his hips front and back.

intimidated, the man accept his offer while accepting 4 gold in return.

he then unties the rope from the tree and use the rope to the girl instead. he tied the girl on her neck and hand.

"come here bitch, you're mine now." the man yank the rope while pulling the girl.

"eeep, it hurts." the rough surface of the rope hurting the thin skin of the girl. bruises can be immediately seen.

the girl the pushed into a fountain by the man and fall into it.. "you reek like piss, fucking brat. clean yourself now!"

"y-yes..." she start cleaning her clothes and her wound. it was painful making her tearing again.

while the girl cleaning herself that guy start to take his cigar and smoking. "brat, your name now is tama or bitch. im calling you both of it start from now, you understand?"

she didn't answer, just adeafening silence.

"i said, DO-YOU-UNDER-STAND?" He pull her hair making she facing him.

"hic* yes..." she was crying, she wonder why this happens to her. hungry, cold, pain and sadness.

"shit! they make wound on my bitch. come bit closer now." he casting a heal magic. her wound closed and blood stopped dripping.

"thank you... uh..."

"what?"

"sorry, may i ask what must i refer you as?"

"mmm... master peng... yeee that sound's good, call me that by now."

"yes, master."

she get out of the fountain, making the green watered fountain became murky from her blood.

he glance at the girl body, her face is cute. but her body so thin as if she not eat for the whole month.

"you will die if i use you now. let's add some meat on you." he smirk while holding the girl chin.

she scared... almost like losing hope. she can only look at the sky, thinking when it end...

they went to the slave market.

the man buy a collar for the girl, it was magic collar for slave, mean she can't run or disobey his order. her freedom now is also taken...

the man then look at the girl status, "welp as expected of a trash."

he look at her perimeter is all low except agility and power, she also in state of hunger, despair and fear. 

"heh... still, animal like you all is fast and brutish. no wonder you dumbass join the demon legion." the man look unimpressed on her highest stat.

she can say or do anything hearing all that.

both the slave seller and the man scoffing at her.

they then left and going to the market.

they arrive at a food stall, the man buy three serve of something that looked like kebab.  they wal into a bench at the park. the man sit on the bench while the girl sit on the ground.

"you better be grateful, for i am a kind owner." he then swing the food at her. she catches it.

"thank you master, thank you." she looked in joy for receiving a food. she eat it slowly, savoring every taste.

the man on the second serve, but he stopped halfway. "shit im full, that's a good meal..." he burp and drink some water on his leather bottle.

"hey bitch, take this." he give the other half to her.

she looks suprised, "thank you master." she happily accept her master left over.

while she is eating, peng open a paper. it's looked like map. he scratches his chin, thinking something.

"mmm, this one also not it." he mark something on the map.

"alright this one next." he grin and start marking something again.

"hey brat, we going now." he call over tama when she drinking from the fountain.

"yes, master." she looked a bit eager to it than before.

they arrive at the inn, peng asked the owner for a rug or leftover clothes to the inn keeper.

tama got a new clothes, atleast better than dirty rug she was using before.

they then going to the bath. tama was bit hesitate to enter the bath along with him, but she can't decline.

"hey brat! here, wash my back." he hand her a towel and she started to cleaning his back.

his shoulder is wide, almost twice size of tama shoulder, it's also full of scar. but she notice 3 big scar on his back.

"the fucker that do that is a beast like you. that's why animal have no honor in fight." he talk almost like he know what inside her mind.

"sorry... master." she then start to wash his back.

"now your turn, c'mere for sec. can't have a smelly bitch in my room." he tugged tama arm making her stand in front of him. a skinny body and pale skin. she looks almost look like sick person. black underneath eye, scruffy hair and empty eyes.

"you looks fucking awful." the man rub her body with soap and shampooing her hair, then he pour water from her head to clean it all.

"thank you, master." thankfully it was warm water, or else she will catching cold at this freezing night, or that what she thinks.

they dry themself and head to the room, the man stretch and jump into straight into the bed.

tama the sit at the corner of the room and prepare to sleep.

"bitch, who tell you to sleep there?"

"uh... im sorry master, i will sleep outside then, have a-"

he open his blanket while looking at her. "you job now is to warm me up, c'mere now or ill smack your face."

tama looks puzzled at her master behaviour. she climb to the bed and lie in his side.

he then hug her like body pillow. "heh, live body is warm." 

last time she hugged is by a younger child that she gave some of her bread, and before that when her parent still alive. she somehow thinks that this man is not so bad afterall, perhaps.

she fell asleep while some tears drop, she wonders what will happen to her now.