buying a friend
Slavery....quite an unusual practice.... I found out that in essence it's just strong capturing the weak and rich buying them for their own uses, well people are strange, I guess they do it just because they could.
I entered the slave market and saw several people chained up with minimal clothing, they ranged from kids to middle aged people, "mom, what is the need for one to buy a slave if they already have servants?"
curiously I asked my mom. "well .....unlike servants you only have to pay once for a slave and they have to follow whatever order you give them..... so rich and powerful people usually buy them"..."can I buy one?" I asked my mom
"well if you want you can.." mom replied, hearing that I quickly scanned amongst the slaves present there, in one corner I saw a girl about 6-7 years old, she had golden blonde hair, with a fair complexion and blue eyes, she could be said to be very cute if not for her sad expression to the point of almost being lifeless, I walked up to her and said "hello, what's your name?"
she turned to look at me and stared for little while before replying in a barely audible voice 'Ava' , I, hearing her voice unconsciously asked "why do you look so sad? you are so cute like a flower....you should rather smile" she just stared at me intensely with tears forming in her eyes... gosh I am stupid....she is chained up and asked her why is she sad.....
In an attempt to console her I asked "would you be my friend?" she looked at me intensely her eyes had a little light now "why would you want to be my friend..... I am just a slave and my parents are dead..... I...I am tied up here and they beat me sometimes.....I..I don't even know what will happen to me...I am scared...sob" well that didn't work and she was vigorously crying now.....
"well that would be simple to solve, why don't you come with me, oh and yeah I am called Avarion...mom could we please buy her?" I made a decision and asked my mom "brother is she really coming with us?...hello I am Amelia, nice to meet you" Amelia seemed unusually excited....well I guess she's getting a friend too.....
"um if you want then okay we could buy her..... she could be your personal servant Avarion" hehe she agreed...
We brought Ava for just 1 gold coin... it feels sad to see life being sold for such meager prices...huh
Ava by now was fully crying, it was an emotional cry but she also seemed a bit happy she hugged me tightly and started crying even harder while softly mumbling "thank you...." guess she's coming with us now.....
And that's how I made/bought my first friend