Thread: Sold For Her Sins (Houdini and BlindedByTheLight)

The year was 2109 in the USA. The Unified Statehood of America. The constitution had been re-written thirty years back, so a new name had to be given to the republic, yet the new founding fathers hadn't wanted to change the name too significantly. A few states on the West Coast didn't join, so also for this reason they couldn't use the old name. After nearly a century of civil war, economic turmoil, and increased crime, the country needed a complete overhaul to have a chance to succeed. Although the causes were many, economic factors were the chief cause for the troubles. Individuals and companies were running up lavish bills on credit, and then simply declaring bankruptcy. Jails were overcrowded and the government was not stable either. Among the radical changes in law was an institution of indentured servitude. This meant that non-violent criminals could be sold at auction into a two to six year period of servitude instead of being sent to jail. The government would therefore earn a profit on the sale, instead of having to put them up in prison. The same sentence could be declared upon debtors who were long overdue on their payments. In this case, the auction money would be paid to the lenders. The institution was little more than legalized slavery. Owners could do whatever the pleased with their servants, with the exception of causing permanent physical harm to them. Servants could at least look forward to freedom at the end of their sentence. Bradley Malone, or Brad, as he often went by, was a young attorney, four years out of law school, yet he had found success early in his career. He was just under six feet tall, with an athletic build, hazel eyes and short cropped brown hair. He had grown up in a well-to-do family in a midwestern city. He was no stranger to servitude, as his parents always owned several servants while he was growing up. There was once an older servant couple, who Brad's parents used for chores around the house. They were treated well. However, there were also always younger, attractive servants around the home, both male and female, that never seemed to have many domestic assignments. Brad's parents were less than secretive about the fact that they used these in the bedroom to fulfill their every fantasy. When Brad finished undergrad school, his parents bought him a young female servant on a two year contract, as a graduation present. She was an average looking girl, nothing spectacular, but passable. After all, his parents wanted him to have goals to strive for. After her contract expired, he purchased another girl at the auction, and had her for three years, until he tired of her, and sold away the rights to the rest of her sentence. She was pretty enough, and had a nice personality, but was too docile for him. He liked a servant with an 'edge' to her. One he could punish once in a while without feeling bad about it, since she was always so well behaved. This brought him to his current situation. He was in the market for a replacement. And having just made partner in his firm, he was out for the best money could buy. He wouldn't settle this time for a merely attractive, pleasant girl. He was going to get a knockout. It was almost a disgrace in the legal community to not own at least one servant at all times, but a badge of honor to own one who would make colleagues jealous.