"Henry. You have been summoned to the General's room."
Henry paused in between his work, letting the brush in his hand fall back to the soapy water in the bowl before quickly getting up to rinse his hands.
He hurried out of the slave quarters not paying attention to all of the stares directed to him.
The incidence by the well weeks ago was already general knowledge amongst the slave and a lot of rumours had been going on around them about him, no doubt.
Some had said that the Chief General always called him in twice a day to service him, some said that Henry had bewitched the General and renewed his charms every half a day.
And God knows what else they said behind his back.
None of that actually mattered to Henry though because he had had to eat Vlod's meal by himself that morn
