I don't exactly know how long we have been traveling and I have no sense of direction. The bag over my head is really starting to get stuffy and I feel sick. I don't think they laced the bag with anything, but I doubt they wash it in between use. Not to mention just how uncomfortable I am right now, and I would readjust how I am positioned if it were not for the cloaked guy in the back who kicked me with quite considerable force every time I tried to sit up. I guess he did not care to show me any mercy even if I am just a child. To make matters worse after the wagon started to move the cloaked man temporarily removed the bag, and I thought I was going to be allowed fresh air, but backed I could take in a clean breathe he shoved a gag into my mouth.
I was beginning to think I was going to die of boredom do to the lack of any stimulation. And I would think about my family and how we are going to be fine and dandy, and how we will go back to normalcy and be happy again, but they are dead and that is never going to be my reality again, and that the very thought of them brings forth very strong emotions which overwhelm me. I can't even think about the good times with my family, and I can't even figure out how I feel, whether it's rage or sadness, or if I able even feeling these emotions because of their death or because i won't be able to live my life like that again.
"So boss who are we gonna sell the kid to?"
"I don't pay you to ask questions."
"Cmon give me something, we have a long trip until we are out of the seltice kingdom's territory, might as well make the most of the time and make a little small talk"
"If we talk we might expose more than we should to the kid, and god knows who he would tell if he found out who we are"
" so what he is five, he barely is aware of anything, he probably will forget that he was a nobles son by the time he is twelve, I doubt he has anywhere near enough intelligence to figure us out"
"If I tell you who I plan on selling the kid to will you shut up?"
"I will consider it"
"The potterburns have recently lost three servants that were under a divine contract, so they are lacking workers around their manor, so they are making the remaining couple servants work more to make up for the loss, but the two servants they have still is not enough to keep up maintenance on the manor"
"Are you really going to make the kid sign a divine contract , that will cost a shit ton, not only that but we will need a priest to create it as well, we can't provide that and what if the priest reports us?"
These people got really chatty all of the sudden but it is better than silence. The plus side is I can learn more about what is going to happen to me. Although I have never heard of a divine contract.
"The lord of the manor will handle all of that and we will be long gone by then"
"As long as we arnt there then we should be fine I suppose, and this means that we won't be paying a single copper"
" you worry too much just do your job and let me do mine"
"As you command boss"
The "Boss" and the cloaked man both seem way more talkative than I would have thought, and while I am less than thrilled to being sold into a contract it's not like I can do much.
The remainder of the travel took about fifteen days, apparently my home kingdom is quite large and takes an immense amount of time to traverse. I spent most of the time listening to the sparse conversations of these two men and when they weren't talking I was reliving the moment they took me in my head. The more I thought about how my life is lost and how my family is dead, more and more dread builds up inside of me. There were times I cried after some time the sadness really sunk in, not just as a fact of life but as my new reality and the emotions hit harder than before. I couldn't even properly mourn my family. I also at times felt anger toward the people who keep me hostage and murdered my family. But as I was before I still am unable to retaliate against them, especially since I am just a kid and they are two full grown adults five times my size.
"We are here, stay while I go meet with the lord" the Boss instructed the cloaked man
The boss disappeared for a long time but when he came back there was another voice
"Do this is what you are offering"
"Yep she is young so he is perfect and a blank slate for training, and he is small enough to smack around as well"
"I will take him, we need all the help we can get around here"
" I trust you will handle the contract yourself?"
"Yes you have no need to worry
The next thing I know someone is picking me up and carries me somewhere before sitting me down in a stool and removing the bag and the bag.
"I am lord Petter Denzel Potterborn, and I am going to take you in as a servant under divine contract, do you know what that is?"
"No," I respond, "I have never heard of one"
"It is a contract between you me and god, and if you break this contract before it expires you under the divine ruling of god and his apostle you will be bound to me and my family as a slaved until either you die, the contract is revoked by the grand church, or my lineage is wiped out, do you understand?"
"Yes "
"Good now either you sign this contract which is being prepared, or I kill you right here and now, Remember we are outside of seltice so nobody knows you nor do they care if you die, choose wisely, because no one is coming to save you"