Chapter 2

Women for northern tribes was famous in the south for their courage , exceptional beauty and proud attitude towards men of lower social classes or foreigners.

The princess of the North The younger daughter of one of Blue Eyes warlords Callisha was one off the most beautiful and skilled in horse riding women in her tribe.

Callisha was a little taller than southern women's with pale smooth complexion and long fair hair falling in her white shoulders. Alongside with her crystal light blue eyes was a special and rare spacement of the northern tribes beauties. She was a stunning young princess with shaped body and very skilled as horse rider in her light leather armour. 

In fact many campaigns of the imperial warrior's happened only to capture some of this fair women's and bring them in the rich palaces and hall's of the south. 

The girl was training every day with her bow and arrows and she had already  killed some off her enemies in her first scout mission as she rode with her warlike companions.

These enemies was in fact some teenage boys that they caught stealing horses and sheeps from one of her fathers stables and the fierce warrior princess didnt hesitate to kill two of them as they ran away and bring the only surviving boy back in her tribe to be flogged.Callisha put a leash around his neck and drug him all the way to her camp with her horse as the women of her tribe laughed and praised their princess succes in battle.

Eventually she kept the boy as her personal slave.

Now in this strange for her ,hot climates  she often rode without her helmet and barefooted.She wore her worm soft boot's from red foxes fur only when her white smooth feet touched the ground. 

But she was still at the age of nineteenth, inexperienced and overconfident about her skills and her fast horse.

In her second scout mission she didn't realise that she was watched from the dark forest.Callisha was crossing a narrow path in a valley and separated from her fellow warriors whose horse's was too tired follow her quick march.

Suddently she found herself surrounded by ten or more ambushed enemies. A net fell on her and a rope in front of her horse stopped its steps. Black armoured soldier's grabbed her from her waist and dragged her by force from her red horse back. Instantly she was at the hand's of emperor's warriors who were awaiting her hidden in the forest path as the evening sun was going down. 

- "Igor ! "she creamed to her horse , which tried to turn in his back legs but it was to late for her ... Her other few fellow warriors fled away with their horses escaping just in time and unable to save her.

The imperial soldiers has no match in hand too hand combat.

 The warriors quickly put her hands behind her back with their strong hand's. After they bonded her soft wrists with shackles and fettered her dainty bare feet with cold iron chain's that they had ready aside for her.

 For the first time she felt the tightness of the rough cold metal around her skin ...They also tied the shaped white calf's and knees of the princess with clothes in order to prevent any thoughts of her about an escape attempt.

She wasn't in pain ... they were careful with her .She was precious.

Then they layed her in a small close carriage with a soft black blanket under her as a mattress.

 For first time in her life she was totally helpless. 

In the past she stood mounted in front of her captured enemies and laugh at them with her tribe but now the things changed in one socking moment. 

After a desperate struggle she realised how useless was to continue to resisting. In the end she was just exhausted.

Five or six north tribe members men's and women's deserters serving as skirmishers accompanied the soldiers with their horse's. Some of this mounted women's gathered near her carriage tickling playfully her bare feet from outside laughing and teasing her.

 -"Look we catch a cute barefooted princess this time !" mocked her with their sarcastic voices. But two soldiers soon ordered them to moved to the rear. 

After many hours their tall dark captain took the half unconscious Callisha in his arms.When they reaching the city he caring her over his shoulder as a traditional way too bring captured prisoners after a victory from the city main gate as trophies.He take her as his slave girl and after offer her to the emperor Valarian.

 The woman's of the palace lived in special restricted area in the hurt of the city called "Haram". Callisha was kept in the emperor's female slave's rooms where many other young and beautiful slave girls , usually kidnapped from all over the empire , were slept also. The girls all in age of nineteen or sometimes twenties was working, eating and sleeping together. Girl's with brownie like mocha skin and light black eyes from south kingdoms or white and blond like her from the North.They lived in this luxurious rooms with fine food and drinks often given to them in bed from other slave's.Usually children slave's or male servants of lower social classes.

The girls could also choose their own personal servants from them to assist in their everyday needs.They provide them with the best silky clothes and perfumes from all over the empire for the events.They also often received gifts like jewellers or precious stones from the emperor himself.Each one of the girls had her own bathhouse heated with underground pipe's and decorated inside with cyan marble and silver.Other , male usually slaves or servants worked at nights to prepare the water for them.The slave girls was also educated more than the free men of the city and definitely more than in their previous life.They learned them writing and reading in the local hieroglyphic alfabet.

Singing and dancing was part of their everyday education also.The new environment appeared attractived and many of this girls especially from poor families started to believe that perhaps this fate wasn't so bad after all.Some they tried to gain the favour of their masters doing things against their own "sister's" as they cold each other.Snitching and backstabbing was usual inside the Haram.And the punishments for the girls that accused for even the smallest mistake was severe.

But despite their privileges the women weren't free at all.It was golden cage.These beauties especially those who came here recently where all chained together in small groups with fetter's in each of their left ankles every night.They slept next too each other under the watchful eyes of their guard's.Even the women who were years in the palace were locked in their rooms at night and shackled with the same way as an reminder of their status.There rooms had no windows and the heavy doors was locked most of the time.

All of them wore the same purple shift dresses and where bare footed ( as this was the rule for slaves in all the inside halls of the palace ) .

Some of them gain the trust of their masters with their obedience.And after one year this women used as supervisors of the other girls in the palace.

The most beautiful of them became one of the many wife's of the emperor or his younger brother's.Other girls married some of the others public officials or officers andgained some of their freedom's in this way ...Callisha never made any friendships there.She hated this place.She isolated herself from the other girls and her only thought was to escape.

She didn't find any way to pass the guard's and the dozens of servants who guarded every door in the Haram.Her escapes usually ended only with her captured again few hours later.Then they usually shackled her again in an isolate room for almost all day or whipped her buttocks or feet untill she cried and asked for forgiveness from her masters.

A thing that she learnt to do quickly for her own good.

Soon she felt into disfavour.Now her everyday life was too assist the maids of the palace in some of their light works and serving the soldiers of the emperor in their feasts.Others girl's usually danced in front of the guests or sang songs in many of the celebration's and gatherings.

But princess pretty feet was always chained in her ankles with a thin shackles to prevent her from her sudden escapes attempts. The guard's new now how fast she could ran and kept her away from the other woman's as punishment for her indiscipline behaviour.But in her good luck she was still too precious for the emperor to be punish like the opposite gender male slave's. 

In her fair ankles a mystery golden elf bracelet was laying around her light white skin.It was just a little more down from her elegant well shaped calf's. And every night it shinned with its own mysterious blue light.It was a strange blue light, different than anything that the people of the palace had seen before.This was the only thing that they allow her to keep from her past life.

 Sometimes the captured lither beauties where working outside in the famous roof gardens of the impressive Balonia.

Balonia was one of the two main capitals cities of the Imperial state this year's.Inside the double high reddish walls off the city heavy armed warriors and archers in the towers we're watching every movement of the citizens.The slaves there were almost half of city's population and rebellions wasn't uncomon.

In the sky four gryphons riders was flying in circles watching the city.With their huge wing's was one of the larger flying creatures that men's of the east learn to ride and use for war and power. 

Callisha was surprised by the new things that everyday saw in her new environment. She realised however that it was impossible to escape.But her free spirit never stopped thinking how she could gain again her freedom .A great victory of her people maybe result in her relish.Only they now could freed her from her chains.But her own beauty was her saviour and her doom. The emperor never allowed pretty girls like Callisha to be released so easily.Even in exchanges between the war prisoners she was excemted.

But one spring day after almost one year from her capture know figure's of mounted people came in the palace of the emperor.It was from her tribe riding their proud horses and wearing their traditional thick leather armour's but without any weapons. They was there for negotiations for her. She never learn what her tribe and father gave in return.But instantly she was released from her bonds and riding another horse she followed her tribe which freed her back in the north. But Callisha wasn't yet safe. 

Far away in the borders between her lands and the city that she just left other troubles occurred. Some Giants war bands riding huge white beasts came from the Grey mountains of the North.They was starting raiding all kingdoms in the area taking prisoners and killed everything who resisted them.But this time she had her people in her side."And this is the key for every victory" she thought