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Escape from the Erotica Palace

... it's about a young woman who had been captured to be a king's harem, but she didn't like him at all and tried to escape with all she could do.

 Part 1 of 3

Euroteca (West Continent), 1417 A.D (Medieval Era)

     I lived in the center city of the Kingdom of Euroteca. My name's Sophie, and I had no family name. I was just a poor 17-year old orphan girl who 'worked' at a local market. I didn't have any family nor home, I did everything I could to stay alive and fill my hungry stomach. Hardly, everyday I looked everywhere for any meal leftovers under the cafe tables or just a penny dropped by rich customers. I wore a very simple, dirty, torn dress that I found in the trash container behind a garment shop. I was nothing but an abandoned person in the society, close to a beggar, almost considered unworthy being in the ever busy world...

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     Although I was poorly nourished, some of the market's customers looked at me with their sympathy... Especially men. They were looking at me with their deep, bold eyes. Some were kind to me, shared his food or just gave a piece of bread. I ate, and the giver usually wanted nothing in return.
     "Sophie, you're a kind girl... You can eat as much as you want if you come to my place..." some of the men offered me to visit him, but I often refused. I didn't want to have a moral debt to anyone, especially men...
     "Sophie, let me take you to a hairdressser, and let me buy some clothes. You're a beautiful woman, can't you see? You deserve better life than to wander in streets and markets."
     I knew, sometimes I went to see my own reflections on the clear river in front of the market; I looked at a face of brown-haired girl with sky-blue eyes; even that she's dirty, but she's not bad or ugly either. There was something special inside me. Men loved me...

     One day, I knew that Iglesos, our King would celebrate his birthday again. It was a public secret in the Kingdom of Euroteca always had to choose new concubines every year. He was a lustful man with a strong will. Every citizen, rich or poor, felt afraid if he travelled across the town on his royal carriage. They bowed down to the ground with respect... not because of his charisma, but more because of their fear. Iglesos might behead or execute any of the people he didn't like, included they who opposed his commands. And many of the parents who had beautiful daughters tried to hide their girls during this period, because they didn't want the king to take them away...

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     I was wandering alone in the streets, looking for a piece of food when a woman suddenly came to me and said...
     "You're the thief! I saw you took my purse at the market yesterday! Ran away to enjoy my money... Naughty girl! Return that to me, you lil' slut!" she looked very angry and tried to grab my neck...
     I was very afraid... "No, Maam... I don't understand at all... You got the wrong person, I'm not a thief... I didn't do that... Really... Please release me."
     "Don't lie to me, you won't be able to escape... return that purse to me, or I'll put you behind bars!"
     She kept pulling me, I struggled, tried to save myself from the rough lady... but accidentaly, my old dress was torn.
     There, I was being humiliated, lying on the streets with torn clothes, everyone around me could saw my back and shoulders, also my peeking cleavage... I felt ashamed....
     The woman started to kick me with her shoes, and yelled loudly to make me even more humiliated. I lied down, tried to protect my body with my bruised arms, and prepared to lose my consciousness...

     "STOP! Please let go the poor girl!"
     That loud male voice was the last thing I heard before I passed out, lying helplessly on the street with fresh blood all over my almost-bare body...

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