"Sharon Green - Chains 01 - Closed in Chains" - читать интересную книгу автора (Green Sharon)

believed in enslaving women, Tain's department had found out that
much,
but that group wasn't organized while the slavers and their
supporters
were.

A number of hours went by with nothing happening, and then the
guard
reappeared in the company of others like himself. The captives had
been
given nothing to eat or drink, but for Tain that was more a kindness
than
deprivation. The only sanitary facilities available was a short bucket
in
each cage, a bucket that stank even without being used. No field
agent was
actually fastidious, not with what usually had to be put up with in
the
field, but there was a big difference between using a bush or tree in
the
woods and using a stinking bucket.

The guards began to open cages, starting with the ones farthest
from the
door they'd entered by. One or two of the women tried to refuse to
come
out the way the guards wanted them to, but a brisk order got them
out and
on their feet. Deliberate orders couldn't be refused by them any
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more than
Ennie had been able to refuse the guard who'd punished her, which
meant it
wasn't long before Tain's cage was also opened. She was gestured
into line
in front of the woman who'd been released just before her, and
then Ennie
was taken out to stand in front of Tain.

The look Ennie gave Tain just before she turned to stand quietly
was
filled with desperation, a silent plea Tain had no trouble ignoring. It
was no one's fault but Ennie's that the two of them now had big
trouble,
but the girl clearly expected Tain to get them out of that trouble.
Tain
could have freed herself from the cage by getting a guard to take