A Collar

Three days passed, but not as quickly as Violet wanted, considering she was about to be sold. Zarrida didn't cut off any part of her body as she had threatened, but the fact that Violet knew she could made her extra quiet as she sat in the new cell she had been placed in, waiting.

She was shocked to find out that she shared the cell with an older woman with grayed-out hair who shouldn't even have been there in the first place.

"What do you think I'm good for?" the older woman had asked when Violet inquired about her presence, slowly shaking her head with a hint of sadness in her eyes. "My son owes these people, and they took him and me! For all I know, he could be dead. I myself am not going to live that long!" she honestly said.