Gelene's Choice

Gelene was feeling very overwhelmed by Alexander's offer, so much so that she seemed to have lost her voice even when she wanted to express her gratitude towards Alexander, just looking at Alexander with glazed, grateful eyes.

This was what Gelene had always wanted, no her dreams were smaller than that, only wanting to latch herself onto a powerful enough man who would not treat her like dirt and let her live a dignified life.

A life where she would not have to wake up at the call of the rooster, work her back off the entire day- tending to the house, cooking and cleaning, taking care of the brats around her, helping out in the fields, and a million other chores, all for her to drag her exhausted body back to bed at the end of it all.

And what would be her reward for all her work?

To be able to barely meet her needs at the end of the day and to be hounded by cold, hunger, and disease all her life, her beauty destroyed, her spine bent and her hands and feet callused.