She took great pleasure in her work, honing her skills with the cane on boys at every opportunity, ensuring that any young male with the slightest pen...hant for submission to the superior sex was soundly thrashed to tears and put firmly on that path to sexual obedience in later years. Beyond her public life, she was a regular attendant at a covert flogging brothel, where males from the gentry and elsewhere would be made to confess their darkest desires when bound over an ottoman ... it was here. "Not at all," Denkton responded, "If a freed black were to have proof of gainful employ, why then, things could be quite different." And how does one go about obtaining this proof of gainful employ?" Well, for example, supposing a land owner that also owns a slave was to pass, and by his will he gave a cow or two, and a few barrels of planting corn, along with the right to farm a small plot of his land for life, well then, that would be considered gainful employ." By virtue of a will alone. Today you decided to go for placing it in a ponytail, your red eyes watched you tie it up before moving away and grabbing your bag.Time for school.The gates to the school were large, towering and coldly metal with no rust to be seen on a single but of the hard material.You shoes clicked amongst the floor, other students began arriving and you made your way to the receptionists desk where you had been told to go.Once there you noticed the old woman who sat at the desk, bored and unbothered until. "Did you do well?" Yes." Of course," she coughs out a chuckle."Ssh." Nick," she struggles to say."Yes, my love." I ... wanted to say ... goodbye." I know. I will miss you." I ... wish I ... could stay. But..." I know. Thank you for waiting. Goodbye, my love."Her smile hurts his heart. Yes he will miss her, but as always happens, he has to let her go. He smiles back as widely as possible until he feels her grip loosen and end. A breath releases, long, emptying her lungs. They no longer need to.