The Commander: A Sacrificed Short Story (The Last Oracle) - Plot & Excerpts
Esso asked, his voice shaking. “She better not be,” Riece groaned, trying to get to his feet. The slave had hit him harder than he thought possible. Most of the girls were too weak, too scrawny to be of any serious threat. But this girl—she had nearly gotten away. Tenoch still stood over her, his eyes black and greedy. He was staring at her legs, which were left exposed in her fall. “What were you thinking?” Riece raged at the beastly guard, pulling him away from the defenseless girl. “She was going to get away, and she just attacked you. She needed to remember her place.” Tenoch spit on the ground. Moments like these tried Riece’s patience. Mostly, the guards were good men. They were honest and hardworking and left with no choice but to serve the Emperor in his pyramid. But there were a few men, like Tenoch, who took this post not out of desperation, but because they saw it as an opportunity—a place where young girls were stripped of nearly all protections and forgotten in the days before they were sacrificed.
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