Chapter 369

I stroked her hair in comfort and felt her shiver against me.

“Her name is Rose,” I told the man softly.

“Is that the name the men called her or it the name she had on Earth?” he asked sternly.

I watched the man’s eyes and didn’t see anger, only a certain resolve. He called me Rachel so he knew slaves were renamed. This man expected to hear Rose’s original name.

“She was named Ruth on Earth,” I told him and he smiled approvingly.

“Ruth it is then and what about the poor, bound girl?” the man asked. “What was her name?”

“Always Fuji,” I told him honestly, “women from her planet are not given names until they are owned. If their owner wishes to give them a name, they get one.”

That gave the man pause. He and his brothers found it odd. That didn’t fit into the way they thought things always were and it confused them. In their experience, everyone was given a name.

“Fuji is from Batra,” I tried to explain, “I don’t really know where that i