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Once they’re gone, I am again left with nothing but my own thoughts. I return to staring out the window, wondering about the world.
My thoughts drift to my old friend, Ella. I wonder if she ever recovered properly and where she ended up.
“Are you out there, Ella?”
I can almost hear her voice answering me, soft and sweet. A stray tear falls down my face.
Lately, I feel almost as if I’m going insane. Like I’m losing my sense of self. Part of me almost believes people like Verna. Maybe I really am worthless. Maybe humans really are nothing. Perhaps I’ve just been denying it all along.
After all, I’m nothing more than a sex slave.
I stand up on the window seat, looking down at the ground below. Maybe I should just do myself and the world a favor and jump. It’s not like anyone would miss me.
The ground is far down enough that I would die on impact. It probably wouldn’t even hurt.
My stomach twists at the thought, and I scramble down, hugging my arms around myself. Not today. I’ll give it some more time.
If things don’t get better, then at least I have a way out.
Later that night, Selliss finally comes home. He lets me know that dinner is on the way and that we’ll eat as soon as he’s done bathing.
I can’t help but notice that his hair is slicked back from the rain. I also can’t help but notice how good it looks like that.
“Dinner is here. Aren’t you hungry?” Selliss asks from the table.
I must have dozed off when it arrived. I slide out of bed and join him.
“How was your day?” he asks once I’ve been seated.
“It was good,” I answer.
I don’t have it in me to ask him how his own day was. I just want to eat dinner and fall asleep. Once I’ve properly serviced him, of course.
I glance up at him, and he’s staring at me with a strange look on his face. I know better than to take it as concern. Selliss couldn’t care less about how I actually feel. And why should he?
I wouldn’t want to bother him with my thoughts and feelings, anyway, not when he could just dispose of me for another girl who wouldn’t complain so much. I know how to stay quiet.
“How was your day?” I ask him, hoping to sound as normal as possible.
Even though I’m anything but.
13
SELLISS
“It’s really no wonder why we, as well as every other region, are willing to go to war with Lodra.”
“Well, that’s the plan,” I say to the group of soldiers. “They have no one to blame but themselves. It started with Prince Zalith, then his royal advisor Slyth, and then it got to the Captain of Lodra’s Royal Guard, Lasta.”
“Fools, the lot of them. Probably can’t handle a real naga woman from the sounds of it.”
I have the soldiers bustling with frustration. I cross my arms and enjoy their heated discussion as they mull about taking over Lodra.
“The Prince himself is to be blamed for starting this damn trend of snatching up humans for mates. Tradition works for a reason, so why fix what isn’t broken?”
“Beats me. Royal bloodlines have always been pure for all the regions of Nagaland, but it looks like that won’t be the case going forward. I hear Princess Aurora has already given birth to eight children.”
“Disgusting! Coddling with humans and mixing their DNA with ours is an unforgivable sin. We need the brutality of naga species in our future leaders, not the softness of humans!”
