“Does it matter? Spartan or Helot, we need each other to survive. Helot women are as important as Spartan women, her gift shouldn’t be for the taking and hunting the men are a different thing then going after the weaker. I am dressed as I always am, forgiveness will not be granted, and you are wrong, you can choose to sit in a field and say you found none or only a few and lie, you don’t have to do this! You chose to!” She screamed at him, her voice raised in anger as tears, hot and angry streamed down her tanned cheeks. “You weren’t here, you know nothing of what he did!” She countered, eyes flashing with passion. “Please tell them that I protected myself from a lustful man who assumed he’d gain an easy target from my household! Try me soldier and you shall befall the same fate as your brother soldier. You are a coward and a disgrace to the roman empire coming to the house of women to hunt for men which we have none, save my father.” She sneered at him from the doorway. “I’m grown enough, it is you who need to grow and learn, yet still earn his place among the mighty!” She yelled after him in the dark. The room was sealed, it was her bedroom after all, they left it for cleaning in the morning and she and the Helots returned to the main house to sleep. They righted everything the …show more content…
As soon as she saw the seal, she knew its contents and fear filled her heart. She wasn’t sure she was ready to be a bride, but Ephor Lycurgus was the best at matches and knew what he was doing to secure the future for Sparta and all of it’s inhabitants. “Let the preparations begin,” She whispered, more to herself than anyone else. The night of the empty moon she would lose herself to another, giving him the only thing, she had left to give. Her heart thundered behind her breast at the wondering of who he was that would claim her. Unlike most marriages of the time, no information was given other than a location for which to be