Chapter 73 | Enslaved

Alternate World One, Week 2

They called it 'Taming the barbarians'; did they have any idea how inhumane they were?

They beat all captives from the Celtic villages to submission, not literally physical beating, but by showing them the taste of prison life with no food for a week. Almost anything sounded better after that, especially death, was a welcome change.

We were kept in tiny enclosures, alone, with just dirty water to quench our thirst. If we tried to talk to each other, we were brutally punished. Even the sound of our breathing annoyed some of these guards.

There was no sign of Marcus all these days. He must be busy raiding more villages and taking more prisoners.

After one week of starving us, they trained us. They put the men through a rigorous strength training routine; after a week of starvation followed by a week of brutal training, they killed off the weak. The survivors were put through the next round of training with weapons, and the