They took a deep breath as they sat down on a pair of rocks, the ruins they had been exploring were nothing special, just a bunch of old abandoned buildings and maybe there was a skeleton here or there.
She could hear the great skeleton doing its sacred duty and opening a path for the river to flow, but the sound of it digging was starting to slow down.
The land was so dry that on one occasion the skeletal beast ha stopped moving and waited until the river finally caught up to it.
Had anyone ever told her that one day, she would fear not hearing the movements of the creature she would have thought of them as fools or drunk.
Back then a group of men and women went out to see what was wrong and they found that the river was being swallowed by underground tunnels, that were collapsing as the water washed them away.
According to the scouts, the beast turned to look at them, but it ignored them as if their presence was entirely meaningless to it and when the water finally reached the creature once more it went back to digging a path for the river to flow.
Life was strange now somehow everything seemed new to her and at the same time, it all felt so natural that she could easily tell herself that she had been doing the same things all her life and believed it.
The role everyone performed was simple, those that could fight had immediately made themselves the guards of their town.
The women that had children maintained the houses - cooked and cleaned everything their rulers had given them.
There were two settlements but both belonged to the same town, those who accepted the houses that their masters had given them and those that didn't and chose to build their own.
The metal men called themselves Players and each of them varied in power and as usual, the strongest amongst them ruled over all of the lesser nobles.
Oddly enough, the meta men or players weren't cruel nor did they demand anything, they just asked everyone not to kill each other and not to cause too many problems.
Unfortunately, problems occurred on the first night everyone arrived.
crime happens a lot more during the night, so she listened to the screams of the unwilling accompanied by the moans of those that were willing.
So it wasn't any surprise that in the following day several men suddenly had groups of women surrounding them for protection.
The man that was responsible for her was no different, but this group was far enough from everyone that no one had noticed them, the night before.
No one exept for an elf and a halfling.
The women offered themselves to her partner and to prove their usefulness they presented to her partner the dead body of an animal they could cook and eat.
None of them had any hunting experience so reluctantly everyone agreed to let the two women into the harem her partner had.
There was already a running joke amongst the people that some men had gathered a woman from every race to satisfy their fetishes.
She smiled at the thought, it was pretty funny after all, the harem just needed a halfling and her partner would have tasted every civilized race there was.
Her partner handed her a mug filled with grape wine and she eagerly drank it, everyone has a role and hers is to be a guard while her partners' role is to be a scout.
Someone that either goes deeper into the mountain or leaves it when there's something that needs to be explored outside of it.
The only reason she isn't walking around keeping an eye on everyone is because of the ruins that had just been uncovered, the days were boring so she had expected something new to happen, but no there was nothing here just old buildings from a time long forgotten.
She enjoyed the sight of a river flowing next to the town and wondered if the town once had a river flowing through it or if this was something new, created b the white being in the sky.
"Hey they're coming back," June said to her as he pointed at the merchants who had returned with cages filled with the slaves they had just bought
The slaves were bought using the player's money so no one owned them except for the players and because of that, no one would dare to lay a hand on them.
For whatever reason, the player made a rule that no one could own slaves except for them, and even then after one or two years of servitude, the slaves would be free to choose if they wanted to stay or leave.
The fact that even the elves that were amongst the slaves could choose was proof of how kind their masters are.
Two years of servitude for a lifetime of freedom.
After the merchants returned and the players saw that everything they had sold everything, they were ordered to go back out and bring back as many people as they could, without causing problems.
She watched with her own eyes as every single merchant was given a fortune, gold real gold coins were handed to the merchants before they left.
A small amount of metal could easily buy a dozen slaves, but gold was more than enough to buy an entire market.
"You know sometimes I wonder why they let us do whatever we want, then I look up and I see them," her partner said to her as he signaled to something in the distance
Sara turned to look at what her partner had signaled to and she smirked.
The dragons that guarded this place weren't like the ones she had heard about.
They didn't demand tribute or ruled over anyone they just passed their days either flying in the sky- digging themselves into the ground or guarding the green lands.
Sara knew that it was only a matter of time until someone found the green and tried to either destroy them to gain power or tried to conquer them.
She knew why her masters had ordered the merchants to bring slaves, but she wished that they hadn't.
On one hand, they needed workers who would do as they were told, the hunters- guards, and scouts needed someone to help them relive their urges when they were away from home.
And the people needed entertainment and just because people couldn't kill each other anymore, didn't mean that the gladiators wouldn't come to exist here.
After all the men and women could still kill the beast that they fought against, and after two years of fighting and training the green lands would gain guards that already had more experience in combat than most of the other cities.
Despite all of this she wondered if her situation had changed at all, sure she now slept on a comfortable bed and wore comfortable clothes, ever since she came to these lands she never went hungry.
Yet, these lands had people that ruled over them, over her and those people were ruled over by even stronger people, who might have a powerful master ruling over all of them.
The streets were just as dangerous as the ones in any other city, but at the same time the only thing anyone needed to do was call to their masters and they would appear when they were called.
In the end, she chose not to think about it anymore, she had her role and it was the role she had chosen.
She chose to become a guard, she could have easily chosen any other role but she had chosen this one and that was all that mattered.