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Somnium the Glady

Sapheth
Legacy Name: Sapheth

The

Glade Legeica
Owner: Vara

Age: 15 years, 1 month, 2 weeks

Born: February 4th, 2011

Adopted: 15 years, 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Adopted: February 4th, 2011

Statistics

Level: 1
Strength: 10
Defense: 10
Speed: 10
Health: 10
HP: 10/10
Intelligence: 0
Books Read: 0
Food Eaten: 0
Job: Unemployed

The pale youth tucked a feathery lock of white hair behind one ear and made a few rapid calculations in his head. Sapheth was seventeen, the same age as all of the other Items housed in the barracks with him, and in a few short months he would be of age and sold at auction or in one of their rare private viewings but he had no knowledge of this. His mind was occupied with the lesson his Instructor was giving and the possible repercussions for interrupting to ask the question that had occurred to him. As unknown to him as his rapidly approaching fate was the fact that long ago his personality and temperament had been analysed and he had been flagged for special treatment designed to encourage his naturally rebellious tendencies. What he did know was that the question he wished to ask would result in a disciplinary measure if asked by him but would be ignored or brushed aside if asked by anotherâ€¦except that none of the other Items would ask it.
Slowly one hand came up, it was the same gesture one might use to flag down a waiter at a posh restaurant. His eyes were down, on the text they were supposed to be reading but he did not need to look up in order to know that the Instructor had paused in mid sentence so that he could speak. â€œWhy?â€ he asked softly before turning his eyes up enough to look through his lashes, thereby making it a somewhat shy plea for information rather than a challenge of authorityâ€”the first was acceptable while the second was notâ€”but even by asking such a question he was subtly challenging. In the same submissive tone the other Items used he continued. â€œWhy would someone ask for what they do not desire? It seems they would do so with the intention of getting what they do not desire to justify a displeasure they did not feel comfortable expressing about the true cause of their displeasure. If they are a Master, why would they feel the need for such disguise? Why not express their displeasure over that which displeases them, directly and openly,â€ he paused and tilted his head a little, causing his hair to fall forward and screen the eye he had just a moment ago brushed it back out of, â€œif they have the right to do soâ€¦â€

A Masterâ€™s right to do, say, ask, demand was not to be questioned. Sapheth received modified rations for one day, meaning water only, and no explanation beyond the standard response. Lessons continued as usual for him and when the final class of the day ended he returned with the other Items in his division to their barracks. There were no questions about why he had spoken up in class or sharing of the incident with Items who had not been present due to having been assigned another lesson for that period. There was no talking at all and even eye contact or casual brushing against another in passing were avoided. They prepared for bed and lay down in their individual cots in silence. He wondered, briefly, if the others could remember when they had occasionally spoken softly together in small groups and even further back, before eliminations had begun, when they had been allowed to interact. His eyelids were heavy and his mind slowed, lingering over vague recollections; a few of the females holding their bed pillows and talking to them as if they were Instructors and the pillows were Items, a few of the males running from one end of the open room to the other simply to prove who was the fastest. He fell asleep wondering why they had done such things, and why those things were no longer done.