The Thief and his Willow

Story Summary: In the land of Kumal, human lives are run by powerful, immortal Lords. Many Lords are good, but there are few that are evil. The worst of them all, is the Dark Lord Zorc, who runs a slave trade underground.

Bakura, a skilled human in the ways of thievery, is the first human ever able to sneak deep into Zorc’s lair. When Zorc discovers him, the Dark Lord makes a deal with Bakura in order for Bakura to stay alive: Bakura accepts, becoming Zorc’s top attendant.

Bakura has been an extremely good attendant to Zorc, so Zorc decides to reward him with a young, beautiful slave girl. Bakura accepts the slave girl, but what will he do when he discovers the slave’s true identity? And how long can he keep the slave’s secret from his master, Zorc?

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The Thief and his Willow

Prologue: The Land of Kumal

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There is a land, hidden deep in the sands of a dry, vast desert. Not many know about the land’s existence, for not many wish to be involved with its cruel, wretched ways of living. This is the Land of Kumal.

Kumal is separated into three major cities: Dire, Hamet, and Amtine. Each of the three cities are ran through a series of business and law. However, each city represents their own living structures and each city has their own sets of rules. But for the most part, Dire, Hamet, and Amtine all share in equality in economics.

In the land of Kumal, money is everything, so citizens become savages.

Dire, the poorest city, consists mainly of scavengers and those who cannot care for themselves. In Dire, strong-built street rats are chosen to become slaves for people of higher class (those who mostly live in Hamet and Amtine.) As men are forced into hard labor, many women are chosen as playmates for overly rich Lords and high-class citizens. Of course, pretty young lads can be taken in as prey, as well, but most people of Kumal find homosexual ‘love’ sinful and disgusting.

Hamet, the middle-class city, consists of citizens in both upper and lower class. Hamet, as most say, seems to be the most civilized of the three cities, with the lowest death and slave rate. Hamet is also the cleanest city of the three, and most residents living there get along well with one another, capable of walking streets without being mobbed, imprisoned, or taken as slaves.

Amtine, the final of the three cities, is specifically classified as the ‘Mighty City.’ Consisting mainly of upper class, Amtine is the cleanest, yet most wretched of the cities. And it is most wretched, for it has the highest slave rate out of all cities combined. Slave trading is ever popular in Amtine, as is law. If any disobey law, they will suffer from death, or worse, enslavement.

No one is safe in the land of Kumal. No human, for that matter.

To one, Kumal may seem like a civilized land. Those who do not uphold to the law must be punished. Right? But should punishment for a crime really be so torturous and vile? Humans believe so, and they believe every word of those who control them. The Lords.

Who are the Lords? No human truly knows. Some refer to them as Government, specifically chosen to run Kumal by rules chosen to keep the land under control. Others call them Gods, put on land to help keep a certain peace to keep the world at bay. And others, others see the Lords as nothing more but Demons, there to cause pain and suffering to each and every human born.

The Lords of Kumal all have their own specific ways of running. Every Lord has individual identities. Many of the Lords of Kumal are generous, to a point, and are kind to the humans. Others, however, are devilishly evil, finding torturing humans as a pleasurable entertainment. But of all Lords, there is only one as dark as night, only one who finds the human race to be nothing but vile, grotesque scum.

He is Lord Zorc, Master of Darkness.

Not many humans have the pleasure of meeting Zorc. Out of all the Lords, he is the hardest to please, and the hardest to read. He tends to sit alone, only calling in human slaves, all women, to dance and entertain him. And on occasion, Zorc loves to sit and watch lovely human females go at each other, groping and licking at another’s soft, pale skin.

That is all Zorc likes about the human race. Its lovely females. Zorc only wished he could seduce them, but he was much different from them.

All who saw Zorc feared him.

And they knew they should.

Zorc was a monster.

However, not all humans, according to Zorc, knew fear. Not all humans show signs of weakness. There are many brave, courageous, and talented humans.

But Zorc only met one. A young man: Bakura, Master of Thievery.

One late night, Bakura had snuck his way into Zorc’s lair, the first human capable of doing so. Bakura had planned on rummaging through Zorc’s many goods, for Bakura was a thief. He raised his self, has killed many, and has survived. But the moment he forced his way into the lair of Zorc was the final moment of his thieving lifestyle.

Zorc threatened Bakura’s life, but Zorc found Bakura to be an interesting human, so he kept the young thief alive.

And Bakura, surrendering to Zorc’s horrifying threats of killing him, sadly accepted his new fate as Zorc’s attendant. And has been so for four long years.

Kumal is a land of opportunity. Kumal is a land of terror and harsh laws. But in this land of fortune, the ex-thief, Bakura, will be given a fragile gift, a gift that no other could possibly take better caring of.

Bakura is gifted his destiny.

And he had Zorc to thank.

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