The Tragedy Of A Slave
(Nameless Slave girl's POV)
Beauty is a blessing.
Beauty is a curse.
Slavery has been formally outlawed under the Earth Federation government for over one thousand years.
Having experienced the oppression by the terrible Draxes, it was a key point written into the constitution of the Federation that we would not inflict those same sufferings onto others.
As a child growing up in a relatively well-off family, slavery had always seemed like a foreign concept discussed only when talking about ancient history.
There were always rumors and articles circulating occasionally on the virtual net that one could buy people on certain dark sites, but I dismissed them as pure nonsense.
Any commoner found owning a slave or taking part in the slave trade would be punished with a death sentence regardless of the circumstances.