It was 147 years since Collapse, that cataclysmic year when the world’s economy and governments broke down. No one was left who had lived through those times when, almost overnight, money became worthless, treaties and the laws which dictated how a society functions were rendered useless.
Manufacturing and technology ground to a halt. Oil refineries ceased to work, electric power plants shut down, and the world quickly plunged into darkness. A new world grew from the debris of the old, one where wealth was measured in tradable, useful items: food, weapons, horses, and slaves. Power to rule lay in the hands of those who ceased it, and hold onto it by force. And morality, if it every truly existed, became a casualty as well.
Sex existed for two purposes only: procreation and the enjoyment of the powerful. The poor and disenfranchised, scattered in a Diaspora as they sought to escape enslavement, clung to the old ways of families and monogamy, their surest hope of security. Who could you trust to protect you, they must have reasoned, besides your spouse and offspring? But families were routinely hunted down, broken apart and sold by those who had managed to scrape together larger holdings of land…land that was only profitable if it could be farmed by slaves.
And for the powerful, sex slaves were little more than tools, like a hammer or a plow. They served a purpose to the ruling class: they provided pleasure and they provided offspring. The powerful had abandoned the laws of monogamy. Rulers seldom mated with one another. Instead, in an effort to strengthen the gene pool of the ruling class, it’s females were ritualistically mated with slaves who were chosen for their beneficial traits. Sex, for them, was a pleasurable reward in part, but was above all else a captive breeding program. Humans were bred to increase slave holdings and to keep the ruling class from suffering the effects of incestuous inbreeding.
It was into this society that Freeman Jarod was born.
Waking from the blow that had rendered him unconscious, Jarod found himself chained to a post, his arms manacled to either side of a foot-thick pole which was driven into the ground in the center of an enclosed livestock stall. His right temple ached mightily where the bolo weapon had struck him the night before. He had been brought down by the slavers, a trade guild of sorts who trapped and sold the few remaining Freemen who remained. Jarod had tried to escape with his wife and son from the slavers…had even succeeded in killing three of their hunting dogs…but in the end the family was captured. Jarod’s wife, an olive-skinned Andosian, was considered undesirable in the slave trade. Their son, being of mixed-race, would also bring a small price on the auction block. Both were raped by the slavers, then put to death…all of it before Jarod’s eyes.
Jarod heard voices coming toward his stall, the large woman slaver that he had heard that morning, ordering workers around in preparation for the day’s auction. The other voices were those of another woman and her daughter. He overheard them asking questions of the slaver and the slave in another stall down the aisle. Gentry, Jarod thought to himself in a mocking air. A mother and daughter out on a shopping trip. As they appeared in the doorway of his stall, Jarod’s suspicions were proved correct. The slaver, a large sweaty woman, was delivering her sales pitch to the mother. The daughter, whom Jarod judged to be perhaps 18, was silent.
"Now this one," the slaver bellowed, "came in just last night. You don’t see many specimens like him these days. Look at the muscle tone and his teeth. Handsome I’nt he? A prime piece of manflesh."
The mother looked up and down Jarod’s naked body.
"What race," she asked the slaver. "Where was he captured?"
"Why, look for yourself," the slaver exclaimed in mock amazement, "Blonde hair and those pale blue eyes. He’s an Arian, no doubt about it. Captured in New Michigan, he was. Viking blood I’d say."
"Yes, well, maybe," the mother spoke, her gaze fixed on Jarod’s crotch, "but he’s dark haired below, and his beard is dark as well. He’s likely mixed, I’d say. Anglais or Frankish."
The trio entered the stall, walking toward Jarod. The daughter separated herself from her mother and walked around to his right side, studying his physique with obvious interest.
"You there," the mother spoke, looking with cool green eyes into Jarod’s, "what is your name?"
Jarod spoke not at all at first, letting the cold anger in his eyes speak for him.
"My name is Legion," he said finally. "and you will never be rid of me. For every one of my kind you enslave, a hundred more will rise up. We will band together and…"
A swift blow to the temple from the ham-fisted slaver silenced Jarod. The mother smiled. She spoke to the slaver, as if she now had a bargaining chip.
"Yes, well, he’s a fine specimen physically, but he’s obviously aggressive. He’ll never do."
"Aggression in a worker, now that is undesirable, but Madam, aggression is a good trait for ruler stock," the slaver said gently, "and we can make him gentle if that is to your liking. Just lobe him, little nip on the frontals, and he’ll be gentle as a puppy. And it won’t affect the genetics at all."
The mother came closer, and Jarod looked her over. She was tall for a woman, even for a Ruler, and her long red hair cascaded in curls past her shoulders. Her ample breasts were supported in a silver mesh halter top, and below her jewel-encrusted navel was a white silk loin cloth -- rectangular panels that reached almost to the ground hanging from a large silver belt that rested on her hips. She reached out a long, painted fingernail and drew it down his cheek and upper chest. She spoke to the slaver, but her eyes remained fixed on Jarod’s own.
"Let’s see him at attention," she said, finally turning away from him and walking back toward the slaver. The slaver dipped her had into a leather bag on her belt and pulled it out with her fingers slick with a shiny rosin of some kind. She walked hastily up to Jarod and, without hesitation, began stroking his cock vigorously in her huge, callused hand. She leaned again him, whispering into Jarod’s ear.
"If you know what’s good for you," she said, her rank breath repulsing Jarod, who tried to turn away from her, "you’ll show these women what they want. A concubine, that’s as fine a life as a slave like you could ask for."
Jarod was sickened by the slaver’s unbathed smell and the weight of her leather-clad flesh pressing against him, but he couldn’t help his natural reaction to her rapid jerking of his cock. His erection grew. He turned away from the slaver, ashamed he could not will himself to remain flaccid. And as he turned away, his eyes met the young daughter’s. The daughter stared in wide-eyed wonder as his growing cock emerged from the top of the slaver’s fist. Her blonde hair was plaited in a long braid that ran down her back to slender waist.
Her eyes, green like her mother’s, stared hungrily at the now fully erect cock. Her hands went to her own face, then slowly trailed down her neck to rest on her heaving breasts. She began to play with them, unconcerned with the presence of the others in the stall. Jarod found his own breathing increase as well. This young woman’s arousal succeeded in arousing him as well. Eventually, the slaver stood back, letting the other women admire his shining, swollen manhood.
"Have you fathered any children, slave?" the mother asked. She obviously wanted to know if he were fertile. Jarod thought of his son, now dead at the hands of these slavers, and of his beautiful wife, who bore him this son.
"No," he said. Perhaps if they thought he was infertile, they would not buy him.
"That’s a lie!" the slaver yelled at him. "He was caught with a woman and small child, Madam."
"I was not the father," Jarod lied. "She never got pregnant by me, so we bred her to another."
The mother smiled, seemingly pleased that the slave could come up with a believable lie so quickly. He was intelligent, but she didn’t believe the story.
"A motility test will verify this." se said, nonplused.
The daughter drew closer to her mother, with an eagerness in her eyes. "Mother, may I sample him?" she said excitedly.
"You may not fuck him yet," the mother told her. "You’re 18 now, but your first time must be at the ceremony."
"Then, may I… taste him?" she replied.
The mother smiled at her daughter. "Yes, I suppose so. Save the cum for the microscope though. Ursula, would you be so good as to fetch a scope?"
"Right away Madam," the slaver responded.
"Well," the mother replied, "perhaps not right away."