Missing chapter finally updated. It took a lot to remember all of it or pieces of it.

Gallows Pole by Led Zepplin

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Maybe I was different from what my master had intended me to be. This difference was what I could taste and touch as I touched the thick barrier between me and him. He was in a bright white room like I had been chained to a beam around the throat, wrists and ankles. His dark eyes stared at me from his hung head as I bit my lip.

I feel hot tears well up in my eyes and I could not believe it, I was crying for him and I jumped at the large, obsidian hand on my shoulder.

"Do not shed tears for that creature, little one. He deserves them not." Arbitrator Dhruv guided me from the cell door and down the long corridor back towards my room. I looked up at her as she walked, I had to jog to keep up with her long strides. "You are welcome to be free here, little one. To be whatever it is you wish to be."

Free?

Me?

My eyes widened and I nodded my head as my tears continued to drip down my cheeks.

"Free." I then inhale deeply. "I would like to pay you all a note of my gratitude if that is allowed."

She chuckled and kept walking leaving me in my quarters, once I alone I found the pouch hidden in the padding of my loincloth. Cutting it out I looked at the pouch and I smile a little before cutting it open, the yellow powder would do just the trick.

Hanging from the gallows pole.

My mind raced as I offered the hot tea to each of the guards, especially the large grey one who would be serving as the executioner. I would be allowed to be in the execution room to see it finally be true, to really happen.

I stood by as they wheeled him in while Arbitrator Dhruv took her place behind a thick barrier as she would be judge and jury.

"Traitor Mlevi you are hereby condemned by this court to death for the crimes of flesh trafficking, pillaging, illegal genetic mutations and murder of your own kin. Do you have a final say in this matter?" Her voice boomed out and for the first time since he arrived I heard his deep luscious voice.

"You look delicious in gold, Dhruv my love." He smiles widely and she flares her mandibles as I shift uncomfortably in my seat. The device holding him was cranked so he was kneeling, his long dreads touching the ground as the executioner approached with a axe that made me gulp.

Then…he stayed, he leaned to one side and the executioner stumbled falling flat on his face as did the guards dropping the weapons they held. My master smiled as I run to his side, blinking aside my tears I taste iron in my mouth as I undo his restraints. I look up just in time to hear her roar, it is shattering in my bones as my master gets to his feet. Blowing a kiss to her as she punches the barrier, cracking it as he grabs my wrist pulling me with him as we run.

I'm pulled off my feet as he runs at full tilt knowing the way better than I as all the guards are fast asleep dreaming dreams of young, lithe females in golden armor. I can hear her pounding after us, too close as we make for the airlock of the ship. I am shoved inside as he closes it, locking it just as she slams into it, enraged like a primal goddess.

He licks his chops and looks at me, I had collected his things from the impound and he puts on his wrist computer and duel wrist blades, flexing mighty arms as he tests their weight. I flush crimson as he orders the ship to take off from theirs. I follow him down the corridor looking at the whip marks on his back and thighs stained green with dried blood.

"I owe you a debt, little trickster." He pins me between two arms staring down at me as I look up at him. His expression is amused and fair amiable as I bite my lip. "Anything you desire."

"Anything, master?"

"Anything." He purrs to me.