She took a moment before answering him. "Not that different," she said. "Except for the pretty boys part. If the churchmen liked that sort of thing they'd have kept it as a secret perversion and I never heard of none of the boys being messed with. But the Colonel and his son, they kept... concubines, they called them. Not just extra wives, but young girls for, well, those reasons like you said. And if they didn't submit they made 'em or took them to the punishment house to teach 'em to mind. The man I fed to the land? He tried... well... he tried. And I fought back. And when he bled, its like the Land rose up and I just fed him to it till there was nothing left of him at all."
Nell was quiet again. "So I'd like to learn. Be able to put a hurting on them they won't soon forget. Because I decided that if they ever came for me, well, I'd die first."
Re: cw: references to comfort slaves and abuse
She took a moment before answering him. "Not that different," she said. "Except for the pretty boys part. If the churchmen liked that sort of thing they'd have kept it as a secret perversion and I never heard of none of the boys being messed with. But the Colonel and his son, they kept... concubines, they called them. Not just extra wives, but young girls for, well, those reasons like you said. And if they didn't submit they made 'em or took them to the punishment house to teach 'em to mind. The man I fed to the land? He tried... well... he tried. And I fought back. And when he bled, its like the Land rose up and I just fed him to it till there was nothing left of him at all."
Nell was quiet again. "So I'd like to learn. Be able to put a hurting on them they won't soon forget. Because I decided that if they ever came for me, well, I'd die first."
"No," she corrected herself. "I'd die second."