Choose Your Own Adventure C12C

You glance over at Rosalind. You can see the terror in her eyes. You feel guilty as you contemplate what you are about to do. But desperate times call for desperate measures and you are desperate to avoid slavery.

“Wait!” you cry. “If you spare me from slavery, I can tell you where you can find a slave way more valuable than me!”

One of the orcs steps forward. “Speak, slut,” he growls.

You point to Rosalind. “She is a princess. She will make you a valuable slave.  And you only know how valuable she is because I have told you!  And her mother is a queen and is somewhere to the east in the forest! Take them both and spare me! Please!” You tell the orcs everything, where you had found Ophilia and how you had found Rosalind in the goblin encampment. Rosalind stares at you in shock.

The orcs laugh and one of them speaks. “We already have this princess. And why should we spare you on the promise that we might find a queen far to the east?” The orc points to Rosalind. “Take that one back to the goblins. They can have her back if they pay us for her. Otherwise, keep her.” He then points to you. “And take this one back to our base, so she can be broken and trained…”

The orcs begin to drag you away.

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