The Slave Maiden (STAR COMMANDER 24) E-Book

Jens Fitscher

• Herausgeber: S. Verlag JG
• Kategorie: Fantasy und Science-Fiction
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 85

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2025

Beschreibung

Altrea is offered as a slave at the singing stones market. This is where Syeel intervenes. The Chron-Bastion sends him to her dream world to stabilize her mind. There he takes her to the flying cities. She soon realizes for herself that the still-functioning social order there is also in danger of disintegrating.

Leseprobe

Jens Fitscher

STAR COMMANDER

Volume 24

The Slave Maiden

© 2025 Jens Fitscher

Illustration: S. Verlag JG

Publisher: S. Verlag JG, 35767 Breitscheid,

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ISBN: 978-3-96674-845-2

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Content

In Syeel household

New quality of life

SYEEL‘S Encounter with Mesalik

Attempted kidnapping

Disastrous development

Syeel's feeling

Escape back

Awakening

What is reality, what is fantasy and what is neither and yet real? Dream worlds accompany us the whole life. To know alone in which world one is now means to really live. When we are on the threshold of death, our brain becomes active. Whole sections of life are created in us in sometimes bizarre form, and we relive whole sections of our own lives in altered form.

In Syeel household

The technology was unfamiliar. Syeel had to explain to Altrea how the wet cell worked. For the first time, she really met technology and automated processes.

Altrea quickly understood that these were not some ghosts or demons.

She looked after Syeel, the man who had bought her, as he left the room. The huge pool in the center of the lavishly furnished and equipped 'body suite', as Syeel called it, magically attracted her.

The warmed water rushed out of one of the taps and Altrea sat down at the edge of the six-square-meter tub.

At first she felt the temperature with her hand.

A little uncertainly she looked around the room. Then she carefully climbed into the tub when she realized that she hadn't taken off all her clothes yet. She quickly made up for it and simply threw her clothes next to the basin. After she sat down in the basin, the water came up to her neck.

A sensor stopped the inflow and fragrant oils came out of the side jets and dripped into the warm water. There was nothing like this in her village. There was nothing like it in the whole world she had come from.

And she liked it.

She must have fallen asleep when a voice screaming at the highest pitch startled her.

She immediately dove her head under the water, gulping down at least what felt like half a liter before she managed to find her footing on the slippery surface and then push off upward.

She rubbed the water out of her eyes and saw a little girl standing in the middle of the room.

She was covering her ears while still screaming in a high-pitched voice.

Its face was already flushed red, but she didn't stop screaming.

"What is it. Why are you screaming so loud?"

Altrea was still quite frightened and stood up with a jerk.

Now as she waded through the pool and was about to walk towards the little girl, the door was yanked open and Syeel rushed in.

"Meh, what's gotten into you?"

Eyes wide, she first looked at Altrea and then changed her line of sight to her father.

With her arm stretched wide, she pointed at Altrea, who was now still standing on the edge of the huge tub, not knowing how to act at that moment.

Meh had stopped screaming and was looking at her father with pleading looks.

"Syeel went to her and took her in his arms.

"This is Altrea. She will be staying with us now. You need not be afraid of her, even though it is a rather rare sight in our house to see a naked woman standing in the room."

He looked over at Altrea.

With a skillful swing of her hips, she had already dived back into the water and only her face, from the nose up, was still visible.

"See, she's even more afraid of you than you are of her!"

"But I wanted to take a bath today. This is my water!" She glared angrily at her father.

"You can go in the water, too. We'll leave Altrea alone for a moment now so she can get dressed in peace. After that, you're free to go!"

With a nasty look towards Altrea, she walked out of the room with her father holding her hand.

Altrea had really been taken by surprise. After she had been treated quite badly in the flying city of STAKIL I, she had already mentally prepared herself that things would be no different here.

And now she had put this little girl in distress. Not because of the screaming, but she had thrown her preconceived notion over the top.

In a world where guys like Mesalik seemed to rule social life and sex orgies with slave girls were the order of the day, the image of children and their loving parents just didn't fit.

She quickly left the pool, and the hot air massage dried her body in no time and did not make her freeze anymore. She found the tunic that Syeel had left for her and put it on.

The neckline was a bit tight, but it covered her whole body, except for her arms. He had also provided two mules of white leather-like material for her.

Now it would become clear how her further life on this flying city as a slave would look like. Because she was still a slave, bought by the man with the name Syeel.

Whoever that might be and whatever he intended to do with her, she trusted everything here in this world, but nothing good.

When she stepped out of the wet room, Syeel's little daughter Meh was already waiting impatiently.

"Finally, it's about time."

She waddled past Altrea, casting a disdainful glance in her direction, and disappeared into the wet room.

Syeel sat in a light-covered armchair, facing Altrea.

She was now standing somewhat lost in the middle of the living room, looking down at the floor.

"Don't be shy. Come to me, keep me company."

He pointed to a kind of reclining furniture that stood next to his armchair.

"Sit down here. We have, I think, a few things to talk about."

"What do you think he was going to do to her now? He probably wouldn't rape her. At least not right here and now, when his daughter was in the room next door." Altrea's thoughts ran purely automatically, as if under compulsion. When she finally sat down, Syeel got right to the point.

"You seem to have already had experience with us "sky people". Is that right?" She just looked at him and said nothing.

"It's all right if you don't want to talk to me about it."

He stood up and walked toward her. "Now he's showing his true colors," Altrea thought, tensing up inside.

However, he only sat down next to her on the couch. "You have already met my little daughter Meh. She has now turned five years old. Her mother unfortunately died too soon and so I have been taking care of her ever since. Unfortunately, that won't be so easy anytime soon. That's why I decided to look for someone to take care of the little one in my absence."

He looked Altrea in the eye. She wanted to back away, startled at first, but then paused. Something in his gaze told her he was speaking the truth.

"I may have bought you as a slave, but that is not what I want you to be here in my housing unit. I want you to take care of Meh. You won't be able to replace her mother, but maybe you can become a good friend."

His facial expression changed abruptly. He really seemed to have become very helpless in his manner now.

She had the impression that he had wanted to take her hands and had only refrained from doing so in order not to intimidate her even more. Slowly her caginess became holey, and she felt compelled to say something.

"You bought me and in your world I am your property, right?"

Syeel was visibly uncomfortable with the topic.

"Yes and no. I want to ask you to supervise my daughter. Not as a slave, but as another member of my family. No one in town will know how you came to me, to us. I promise you that!"

Now she had been caught totally off guard.

"And Meh?"

"You certainly won't! Are you okay with that?"

What was Altrea supposed to say to that now? She had least of all expected such an offer. But what could she do but say yes?

Now, when Meh, with her bathrobe billowing half open, came running out of the wet room, seemed to orient herself briefly, and then rushed toward Syeel, Altrea said the word: "Yes!"

The next morning, she stood helplessly in the living room at first.

A 'daily routine' was something completely new to her. In her village of Ringkobing, although the daily tasks were also basically distributed, there was not really a structure in it. First, Syeel had occupied the wet room.

The order seemed to be very important and was almost a ritual.

Then it was little Meh's turn, while Syeel was already preparing food.

That meant he pressed several buttons on the wall-mounted automatic and brought the ejected food to the dining table, or as he put it, Common table.

"That will be your task soon, Altrea. Please check on Meh occasionally. She always likes to get bogged down."

Altrea hadn't really understood what he meant.

"She forgets the time and then is late for class," Syeel tried to explain. "What do you mean by lessons?"

"The few children in our community, just like most of the townspeople, have a regular daily routine. Meh will be doing her learning duties for the next five hours."

Before Altrea could ask another question, Meh stormed out of the bathroom and dashed to her place at the table, where Syeel had already set the table. With a wry sideways glance, she looked at Altrea, but otherwise said not a word.

"You can freshen up now," Syeel gestured to the bathroom.

"I was just in the water last night, after all!" Meh started to giggle.

"We are very clean here. We clean our bodies in the morning and evening to prevent disease and decay. You'll settle in."  

Altrea looked a little surprised at the breakfast in front of her. She wasn't quite sure if it could be eaten.

On a white plastic plate were several different colored rectangular, square, and round pieces.

Next to it was a cup containing a light-colored liquid. She watched as Syeel and Meh put the yellow pieces in their mouths and began to chew.

Could they really eat it?

She first took a small sip of the liquid and then, realizing that she was thirsty and that it tasted kind of like milk, she drank the cup in one go. However, Altrea could not really make friends with the colored pieces on her plate.

Bread, cheese, and meat looked much more appetizing. She pressed a finger on one of the pieces and it gave a little.

It felt soft and smooth.