Chapter 26 - New masters

When the guards came for Axena and Lixinni to return them to their new mates of the slaves whose status was to be raised, they sluggishly rose to turn their eyes away from the maid's head as there were more questions to ask and there were more left unanswered too. Axena felt that there would be more to learn from the woman and she hoped that there would be more time in the future to return to the kitchen and have more time to speak with the woman concerning the routes to survival.