The Silence Within (The Young Ancients: Tiera) Read Online Free Page B

seem any different at all, and decided that she liked the place. It was ostentatious to a degree that real people couldn't ever have, but it would impress anyone looking at it, which had to be the plan. She felt it, and she knew it was all just magic. Even Tor's place had been done in a more sensible and realistic manner however.
    "I was thinking I'd see if Gerent needs a house woman. She's already agreed, complete with the knowledge that I'll literally kill her if she makes him feel poorly. She'll also provide other services for him. If he wants. That's how I found her earlier today, offering herself to two men on the street for a copper. I don't know if she's fixed herself, but if not, I'm going to simply execute her. Don't tell anyone that. We just don't need her as a weight around our friends' necks any longer. So one way or the other this is going to be done in the next few days."
    Trice made a face at her. It was a bit sad, but not angry seeming at all.
    "Gerent... He's putting on a brave face, but he's been so lonely. I know he loves me, but, with the marriage and all, well... I don't know. This might not go over well. He's pretty shy about sex, and having another man's wife basically be his private whore could be a little bit too much for him." She kept watching the bathing room door, as if expecting Carol to try and sneak out.
    If she were smart, that would be the best course of action, but it would also mean leaving her old life of privilege behind for good. If nothing else she could earn a better class of man to service, being clean and looking like herself. It wouldn't be a perfect life, but it might be better than the beatings she was in for.
    That part of things was a little hard for Tiera to handle really. It wasn't that she was opposed to such things, and it was real enough. She'd been on the receiving end of one once herself at school even. The woman would almost certainly be knocked around. It was just the idea that it was her own family that would be doing it that was hard for her to understand.
    "Maybe I should beat her?" It was just an idea, and seemed to come out of the blue, but Trice stopped for a few seconds and then started to let her head bob.
    "I... think that might actually be wise. You don't care about it all, one way or the other, and are known to be strong and a good fighter, so no one will think that the punishment isn't fair. You can do it without weapons too and let her heal halfway through, so she won't die from it. I don't think that Collette will kill her, not for real, but I don't know she won't either. Bonita just might. She was hiding it well when this came out, but I heard she was really planning to challenge her step-mother to a duel to the death. She only held her hand because Tor begged for her life. Carol's, I mean."
    The idea of innocent and sweet Nita being driven to that end almost made Tiera want to go and start the punishments right then. She didn't, because it wasn't her problem to solve personally. They had a solution, and it would have to work, or be changed with input from the others.
    "Should we get everyone together for it, or do all the beatings separately?" She was joking of course, figuring that it would be more efficient to handle them at the same time, but Trice shrugged. It was a move that she'd probably learned from Tor, even if she didn't know it. Most people didn't do that at least.
    "My vote is separate, for each of the involved parties. This is big . What she did to Nita was huge and should have probably cost her life already. A few weeks of sucking cock isn't enough to teach her anything. Humbling that kind of person just makes them mad. Of course, learning fear doesn't make a person better either, just too afraid to act, but hopefully we can work something out." If she really meant the last bit, it was hard to tell. She just smoothed her pretty blue dress over her leg and stood up.
    That part was so that she could get out the clothing amulet.
    Then they had