Bala woke up to the sound of voices and a crew of beings standing with Zaldana as she removed his blindfold. Trying to move, Bala realized he was bound and caged up while coming to his senses and looked at Zaldana with a surprised look on his face. Zaldana smiled when she noticed him waking and recognizing her with the pathetic look on his face.
"Oh Bala Bala, my sweet little money maker. I heard you were going to leave me for a little adventure to move up in life with one of Firebeard's sons and my my I do see you would pick him. Though you see, you are worth more than you think so I can't let you just get up and leave. There is a market for boys like you and I have a buyer that wants you. To top it off he is a sadist and I know how much you like those types of men," Zaldana mocks Bala with a chuckle.
"You miserable, backstabbing, cocksucking, low level cunt! I'm not going back to dealing with fucking Sadists!"
"You have a smart mouth there my sweet Bala. Who do you think it was that persuaded them to use you out of all my other stock? And why only you when the buyers surely needed more than one? Curiosity Bala. I wanted to see what you could take and they pushed the limits for sure but now I know what you can take and so does the person interested in you. So either way you have to reenter that world my sweet."
Bala's face was enraged "You....I know you had something to do with having those sick bastards put me through that. If only the shoe was on the other foot...I'd have you on the roughest pirate ship being raped by the entire fleet. You wait until I get free from this, I'm going to make your life more than hell...bitch."
"My sweet Bala even if you did do that they wouldn't hurt me. You see songs can sway the nature of a man."
Nilos caught what she said "Y-you're a siren!? or...part of one!?" he blurts out.
"A siren huh? Used me since day one. So that shit about being partners...it was just crap you used along with that damn voice to make me believe I was above this....I ought to break your voice..”
“You can try all you want to my sweet Bala,” she said as she crouched and grabbed his chin, “But you don’t have enough courage to hurt me so stop making those idle threats and man up. Take the shit that falls in your lap and deal with you poor pathetic child.”
“I’ve dealt with it my entire fucking life….” he said looking away from her eyes.
“I thought so,” standing up she looked at the rest of the crew, “Everyone in this cage will be sold tomorrow afternoon. Get a goodnight’s rest because some of these will put up a really good fight.” She and the crew headed off for the evening meal followed by heavy drinking.