Chapter Five
A Step In The Right Direction.
That, dear readers, was just over two years ago and as you might imagine much has changed in my life. I have moved on to become that which I was destined to become according to my father. I have taken up the reins and put on the spurs and now I am queen and goddess of all that I survey. James, darling James, is everything I might have wished him to be, though he is still a trifle sad on occasions. As shortly after he signed on as my first slave, his father was killed in a ploughing accident on the top farm. It seems he had been helping a certain widow out with the running of her farm and the horse he had been driving had shied and kicked back. James’s father had been hit full in the face by a metal shod hoof and he had died almost instantly or
