"But you cannot leave the... «And I Darken»
RamingoWS27 сентября 2018"But you cannot leave the harem! How could you have done all this?" "Did you notice the men who work here?" Lada shook her head. "Exactly as it is supposed to be. My precious eunuchs, they make everyone so deeply uncomfortable. Men cannot stand to look upon them, tormented with imagining what they must have endured to become what they are. The eunuchs are slaves, just as I am, but they, too, have sacrificed. They have had something precious and irreplaceable taken from then, and in doing so, have created a place of power for themselves. They are everywhere in this country, in every important household; they are clerks, they are guards, they are mine." Huma sat up, her movement so sudden and violent compared with her lazy, sensual motions that Lada jerked back. "You see this" — Huma gestured to the room, the building, and finally to herself — "as a prison. But you are wrong. This is my court. This is my throne. This is my kingdom. The cost was my freedom and my body." Her fine eyebrows raised, mouth playful, eyes hard. "So the question becomes, Daughter of the Dragon, what will you sacrifice? What will you let be taken away so that you, too, can have power?"
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