Tangle in the Dark - Kassidor

he was lucky to be heard, he must be doing most of theauctioning by visual cues.The king and high priestess went back up the steps totheir apartments after only a few bids were completed. Beforethey were thru with the second row, a couple of the first girlswere back out. One thing Yellelle had told her was that thegirls could come around as many times as they wanted, andYellelle said she’d usually like to go four or five times, butshe sometimes got into competition with some of the othergirls and her record was seventeen. Ava also knew how muchshe needed to get out of here, but didn’t know how she wasgoing to learn how much she had without asking Yellelle.Yellelle was up first in the front row. By now the girlswere drawing quite a few more bids, and Yellelle drew morethan anyone so far. Ava had no idea what the bids were, otherthan they were marked off on the scraps of parchment theycarried.Once bidding started on girls from the front row, the bullswere brought out once again. It seemed that to win one of us,the man has to also leap over the bull. It looked so easy whenthose girls did it, with plenty of acrobatics thrown in. Thewinning bidder had his tally sheet marked and climbed overthe thick and rough wooden railing. Ava felt as well as heardthe bronze door beneath her grind open and one of the bullsstrode out, along with his nubile trainers. She could see it inthe man’s eyes as they got bigger. She could even see thetorchlight on the sheen of sweat that was breaking out on his447