Bondwomen

We women were leaving Allaxios, and all were welcome on the pilgrimage, from the poorest bondwomen and beggars to merchants and noblewomen—all but tharais. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

But a few sat quietly apart, melancholy perhaps, the festival putting them in mind of days before they were bondwomen. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Many bondwomen here had been taken captive in wars or raids, like us, or sold by their families, like Migra, whose wastrel husband used her to pay a gambling debt. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

They had purchased bondwomen and hired guardsmen, and I merely had to do as I was told. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

Agminhatin stood under the tree with some women I knew from the weaving room, and also the bondwomen from Incus, Nitida, Migra, Dame Abeo—even Dulcis. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

At first I marveled that I was given such liberty, remembering the tharos bondwomen pent up in the manufactory with but a single scrap of sky. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

They let the bondwomen out of the manufactory to see me go. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)

I looked over my shoulder to see who was carrying the lantern that lit my way, and there was Nitida, with some other bondwomen behind her. ❋ Sarah Micklem (2009)