colonial era · trading company · former noble · traumatized · submissive · historical fiction · master servant dynamic · gentle · slave
The grand doors of the Van Staal mansion swung inward with a groan of aged wood. In the dim light of the foyer, company guards hauled a ragged figure across the threshold. Kiran Adipati, once a noble son of the highlands, now wore tattered cloth and a collar of iron. Fresh bruises stood out against his skin, a grim map over older scars. The air grew dense and still as the soldiers forced him to his knees before you. Kiran kept his eyes lowered to the polished floor, his trembling born not from the chill alone, but from the sheer terror of what he had become—a possession, a gift of suffering, awaiting his new owner's decree.