"Get back up." A vile man yelled and cracked a whip at a young woman.
Said woman was pregnant but a slave, she did well to hide it from her Master. Later that night, after the rotation of slaves, did she give birth to a girl. The woman was weak and her companions, the other slave women, could do nothing to help her except promise that they would care for the child themselves. The woman passed with a small smile on her face, believing in them to protect her daughter. The other women tried hiding the newborn away from their Master but they had nowhere to hide the child before the Master's men came in. The men yell and hit the women in the room, hitting some with their whips, and ordered them to get rid of the body. The Master came in after hearing all the yelling and pulled the newborn out of an older woman's protective grasp. He gave a wicked grin when looking at the naked baby and seeing it was female. He had found a new toy.
The now young girl was helping dig the out a hidden tunnel in a secluded part of the Compound where she and the other slaves worked and lived. Her body ached from the lashes she had received the day before for eating her Master's food. The island the compound was located on took up most of the island itself. With the name unknown to most slaves they have taken to calling it Biome Island for the amount of different climates it had, from blazing hot lands of sand and stone, to the frozen waters and mountains of snow and ice, the golden fall forests and the springtime meadows. The Master and his men didn't like watching the frozen Biome and their snails would simply freeze constantly, giving the slaves a perfect chance to plan and work an escape route. An elderly woman, who watched the child and raised her, could see that the child often brought light and hope to the other slaves. The child, who everyone calls Warren, or Ren for short, for her protective and defensive nature for others. Warren and the other digging slaves were using crystal mining as their cover. When Warren was 4 she had stumbled into a slightly frozen over cave that had tons and tons of colorful gems and crystals. The Master, after seeing the beautiful crystal in his young toy's hand immediately ordered the cave to be harvested for all that glittered, not actually seeing the cave himself. The miners only harvest a few gems and crystals each day and only Warren and some other slaves know the location of the cave. Two of the Master men follow them into the cave but they are nice men who want to free the slaves so they keep quiet about the tunnel and the amount of glitters. Warren was put on service duty the next week but her weak arms could not hold the full weight of the cooked pig she was handed and dropped it, this called for a punishment. Warren was dragged by her hair to the room the slaves were punished in. The tall, muscular man in charge of punishment started with cutting hurt dirty, but beautiful black hair roughly until she had cuts on her head and ache where the hair was pulled. The Painful Man, as Warren called him, bound her wrists in cuffs and hung her from a hook in the middle of the room and grabbed a whip and stripped her of her already torn clothes. Painful whip both her from and back, not caring where his lashes landed, one lash hit her face and ran across her eyes. The other slave could only listen as the heard her screams of pain. As a final form of punishment, Painful liked to do, was to dunk the slaves in salt water to 'clean' the wounds. Warren no longer screamed as she was dunked into the cold and painful bath and was held under for a few minutes. She gasped for air when her head came out from under the water and Painful threw her into her barrack. The women on break grabbed her and dressed her wounds and got her some 'new' clothes. The two nice men would often sneak food and medical stuff out to the slaves when they could but it would not help Warren. She would not take the better food, would give it to the younger or elderly slaves who needed the food more than she did and she only used medical stuff for when she absolutely needed it. A former nurse who was on cleaning duty stole needles and thread so she could stitch bad gashes close. There was a former doctor who was a slave as well but men and women could not enter the other's barracks. When Warren's mother became pregnant it was before she had became a slave. Warren's mother was on her way to meet her beloved to tell him the news before he set sail when she was jumped and drugged. Ren look like her mother in every way except her eyes were that of her father's, golden like a wolf's, always scanning and watching the things around her. Ren has heard the other slaves talk about her father, he was a pirate who roamed the seas free. Ren was proud to be the daughter of a pirate, even after the news announced that he was captured and killed along with some of his crew or so the papers say. Warren's eyes had faded from gold to pale yellow and was now blinded, fully in one eye and partly in the other. When she awoke of her punishing she went straight back to work and in her very little free time, she trained herself to because she did not want to feel the pain anymore. She took up the habit of learning how to move with a staff from an old pipe that had never been picked up. She became strong trying to push different size rocks and move fallen down trees. Her stamina and endurance didn't really need trying since she was a slave and needed those two aspects to survive.