Inna's Fate - Page 4 (Patreon)

The man took a firm grip on Inna's hair and pulled her up. Inna was screaming from pain and trying to hold his hand to release pressure from her hair. 

"Sweet." Roman laughed and looked at the girl. "Maybe a little bit more meat around the bones would be good, but I like this little fish."

Inna was not resisting or trying to fight. She knew the man was more powerful and knew how to use his weapons. Inna only hoped her family had made it to the castle rock and safety. It would be unbearable if her small cousins were also in the hands of the raiders. 

 The future would be very uncertain if they were enslaving people as their loot. Inna was familiar with slaves. Slaves were lesser people who worked in the fields, and owners rewarded them only with food and shelter. Inna was sad and scared, thinking about how slavers would take her to another village. Then she was forced to work there for the rest of her life. 

Naturally, Inna could not imagine what Roman had planned to do with her. Roman was a good soldier who could resist the temptation of opportunities in the raid, but he had to think about the loot he could use to grow his wealth. He was not planning to sell a beautiful girl like Inna to some random village. Instead, he would take her down to the south, where slavers would pay a fat sack of gold for the blonde girl. That was living in an alien world far beyond Inna's imagination.