9
FERRAZ
Ferraz sat in a dark corner of the pleasure giver communal area, brooding. The Melokai hadn’t called him in nearly two months and it was clear to him, and to the other smug PGs, that he had been demoted. I am no longer Ramya’s favourite. A nobody. A PG with no status. What did I do wrong? I thought she was falling in love with me, that she would declare me her soulmatch.
There were rumours she had found another peon, but it was not another court PG, which was baffling. There were no other suitable peons, unless she had found one from outside the capital, who was in another profession but even so, he would be taken into the PG set and given a cell with the rest of them. Ferraz could no longer get the latest gossip from the washer-peon as his tongue had been lopped off. The wash
