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       Orphan. Daughter. Slave.
   DIR By: Yana{HoL}
       Date: April 9, 2026, 7:46 am
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       Yana
       Property of the House of Lycus
       Restricted to the House
       .:|MPG|:.:|PoD|:.
       House of Lycus - Great Hall
       -=is somewhere within, visiting or conducting business in the
       Great Hall of the House of Lycus.=-
       ALL: Yana was in the Great Hall of the House of Lycus. Not
       training, as she had been on previous days, not standing or
       kneeling in front of mirrors practicing different slave
       positions, how to move with a lithe sensuality, how to carry
       herself in a way that would make men want her, desire her, seek
       to throw her to the furs, pull her ankles apart and take her.
       No, this day the blonde was on hands and knees, hard at work
       with scrubbing brush and pail, washing the marble tiles that
       formed much of the floor of the Hall. She who had once been
       Ydril ze Omun, had held title of Daughter of House ze Omun, had
       enjoyed life of luxury, opulence, extravagance, had had slaves
       to bathe her, dress her, clean for her, now found herself naked,
       on her hands and knees, steel around her throat, a brand burned
       into her thigh, scrubbing a floor, and knowing that if it was
       not done to the satisfaction of Sinnabun, she would feel the
       second girl's switch across her bare backside.
       Yana
       Property of the House of Lycus
       Restricted to the House
       .:|MPG|:.:|PoD|:.
       House of Lycus - Great Hall
       -=is somewhere within, visiting or conducting business in the
       Great Hall of the House of Lycus.=-
       ALL: Yana pressed the bristles of the brush into the marble,
       scrubbed, hard, hard enough that she could feel the muscles in
       her arms gently protesting, hard enough that a thin sheen of
       sweat glistened on her bare body as she moved across the floor,
       her knees aching from having spent what felt like ahn on hard
       marble. It would be fair to say that she worked not with skill,
       of, for that matter, enthusiasm, her efforts lacing either
       quality, for while Ydril ze Omun might have learned many things
       during her life, first as an Orphan, on the wharves of Kasra,
       and then, after she had been adopted, became Daughter of House
       ze Omun, in her Mother's villa on Asperiche and elsewhere.
       The wharves had taught her how to survive, how to be aware of
       danger, to elude it, how to steal, and aye, how to fight. The
       scar on her belly was testament to that. Distinctive, aye, it a
       reminder of another time, another life, one that did not involve
       scrubbing floors, one that existed only in memories, though that
       had been the case long before she had first set foot in the
       House of Lycus, for in a way the she urt that had worn the red
       sash had never emerged from the cave in Tyros, for she had
       entered an Orphan, staggered out a Daughter, one clutching her
       stomach to keep her innards within, the Healers only called
       after she had been told that her name was Ydril.
       Yana
       Property of the House of Lycus
       Restricted to the House
       .:|MPG|:.:|PoD|:.
       House of Lycus - Great Hall
       -=is somewhere within, visiting or conducting business in the
       Great Hall of the House of Lycus.=-
       ALL: She worked the brush at a particularly stubborn spot of
       marble, muscles flexing as she scrubbed hard, dipping the evils
       into soapy water every now and then. Her instructions had been
       clear, the floor would be inspected later, was to be found
       gleaming or there would be repercussions. And so she laboured,
       naked, in the Great Hall of the House of Lycus, surrounded by
       the trappings of her Master's status and Caste, the banners of
       blue and yellow that adorned the walls, the furnishings,
       understated elegance such as she might have favoured in her own
       chambers in Cardonicus, the possessions of a man that had no
       need to stand and shout to the world of his taste, for that
       taste was evident in all that he owned, which, of course,
       included the nude blonde that now scrubbed the floor, for just
       like the tables, the chairs, the tapestries, she, too, was a
       property of the House of Lycus, a thing that was owned.
       A slave.
       Yana
       Property of the House of Lycus
       Restricted to the House
       .:|MPG|:.:|PoD|:.
       House of Lycus - Great Hall
       -=is somewhere within, visiting or conducting business in the
       Great Hall of the House of Lycus.=-
       ALL: Aye, the wharves of Kasra formed one part of her story,
       that of the orphaned she urt who had grown up on those wharves,
       had a name, one that was neither Ydril nor Yana, one that had
       never been said aloud after she emerged from the cave, her
       opponent left within, a meal for the varts that had flocked
       around her. Her Mother had taken that name from her, named her
       Ydril, Ydril ze Omun, Daughter of House ze Omun.
       But that name, too, had been lost, when she had stepped into the
       bond maid circle in the courtyard of the House of Lycus, for in
       the eyes of Gorean law a slave has nothing, not even a name
       unless her Master chooses to give her one. And so just as the
       Orphan had ceased to be, so too did the Daughter.
       Orphan.
       Daughter.
       Slave.
       A trinity of sorts. Three parts of the same whole. Each
       incomplete without the other. Even the slave with her part to
       play.
       Yana
       Property of the House of Lycus
       Restricted to the House
       .:|MPG|:.:|PoD|:.
       House of Lycus - Great Hall
       -=is somewhere within, visiting or conducting business in the
       Great Hall of the House of Lycus.=-
       ALL: Orphan
       Daughter
       Slave.
       The thought resonated within her. A different step here, a
       different step there and she would not be as she was. The day
       that the Orphan had been caught in Kasra she who would come to
       be her Mother had bene on the wharves, had signalled that the
       blonde haired waif held by dock workers was to be given to her,
       that she might be tested, see if she was fit to wear mantle of
       Daughter of House ze Omun. An ahn earlier or a ahn later and she
       would not have been there, the she urt then would have suffered
       the same fate as others of her ilk that were caught, the collar
       most likely, and the iron, then slavery, on her back if she was
       lucky, in the fields or mills if she was not.
       But the Matriarch of House ze Omun had been present that day.
       And so her journey had went on a different path, one that
       ultimately led via other places to the House of Lycus. That
       path, too, had ample opportunity to misstep. She could have
       lingered in Cardonicus. Or accepted one of the offers of
       Companionship that she received. Even were she to have still
       found her way to the House of Lycus it might have been at a time
       when the Master of the House was absent. Or had chosen not to
       have a kaissa board in his Hall. Or she could have won the game.
       After all, she almost had.
       A multitude of different things had to be in alignment for her
       to be where she was. The Orphan had to become the Daughter, the
       Daughter then the slave. What, the nude blonde wondered as she
       scrubbed the floor of the Hall, her thoughts now far beyond its
       confines, would be the next step in her journey?
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