Submission (3)

Aleks entered his makeshift audience hall, which was really just a slightly larger area of the tent that was his temporary home. There, his throne was placed at one end of the room and forming two lines on either side down the audience hall were rows of people. They were his subordinates, tribal warriors, commanders, officers, soldiers, and others. Servants kept towards the back, with some of them with their heads downward near his throne. These were those most trusted servants who saw to Aleks's personal needs. They were slaves and almost entirely beautiful women of a variety of races. These were slight touches that Lariel had made and not something Aleks specifically requested of her.