Leila: Galley Slave - The First Belt War

The life of a galley slave is not one that many would choose. Chained to an oar, toiling for many hours a day, whipped at the slightest sign of slackening, and fed on gruel and pony-pellets, it can be grindingly hard and monotonous. When they are not rowing their bodies are at the disposal of the free crew and passengers. Leila, however, might have been born for the role. More

The life of a galley slave is not one that many would choose. Chained to an oar, toiling for many hours a day, whipped at the slightest sign of slackening, and fed on gruel and pony-pellets, it can be grindingly hard and monotonous. When they are not rowing their bodies are at the disposal of the free crew and passengers. Leila, however, might have been born for the role. She is an exceptional woman, big and strong enough to take the labour in her stride, and beautiful and busty enough to serve as a pleasure slave to the most demanding of passengers. During the long periods when the galley Queen Charlotte is under sail, she’s rarely at her bench or in her kennel, but is usually to be found chained to a bed in one of the more luxurious staterooms, or the cabin of one of the senior officers.

Leila lives a thousand years in our future, on an isolated colony where the preservation of the fragile ecosphere is the highest priority. The use of fossil fuels, metals and mined chemicals is kept to an absolute minimum, and land transport is drawn by ponyslaves. On the oceans, the great galleys maintain a regular service for freight and passengers between the planet’s two widely separated continents, passing through a narrow strait in a ‘belt’ of barren rock that girds the equator. When that waterway is closed by hostile savages, the transports suddenly become warships. Leila’s role changes out of all recognition, bought as a pleasure slave by the aristocratic commander of the naval expedition. The princes, ministers and officers who use her body soon begin to appreciate her other talents, for she is surprisingly knowledgeable about naval warfare; a teenage interest. Plunged into the first war ever to be fought on the planet, she witnesses scenes of heroism and extreme cruelty, is often in great personal danger, and achieves a degree of influence quite unique- and perilous- for a slavegirl.

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