The Conundrum of Descretion

When they had finally started to move, she had walked again along with the team of bosk, prodding them from time to time. As she walked, she did as she usually did, she thought.


The previous evening, she had been restless and had taken a walk down towards the stream. As was her habit these days, she was deep in thought when she heard voices and realized that here were others there. Looking up she smiled, thinking that some company would be nice, but what she saw brought her feet to a complete standstill. It was not long before she was looking for an escape route, as she stood there in the darkness.


There was the bosk singer, Ba'atar, standing in the stream, naked as the day he was born, and with him was Leonette. The woman was clothed, but she was washing his back, helping him to bathe. Feeling as if she had stumbled onto an intimate moment, and stepped back quietly, and found an escape route back to the wagons, hoping that they did not see her.


She sat for a time alone at he fires, trying to sort this out in her mind. It was not the fact that they were together that had her upset, but it was the way that they were together that bothered her. She is a very conventional woman, and in her thoughts, a single free woman was not around a naked man under any circumstances, and she surely did not bathe him. In her thoughts, she decided that maybe the transition from slave to freewoman was more difficult than any had believe. That some things were just there, and always would be, and this saddened her. She would say nothing to anyone, for she did not wish for idle gossip to destroy all that the woman was working for. But it bothered her greatly, and she was not exactly sure how to approach the woman about it, how to advise her that she needed to be more careful. Perhaps she would just say nothing.


She knew that Leonette had very strong feelings for Ba'atar. They had spoke on this fact at length during this trip. She had even said that the love she has for him, was stronger than what she had felt for Fonce, which actually shocked the woman when she heard it. Leonette had said that Ba'atar brought about feelings in her that were stronger than she had every felt before.


It was a conundrum, and there was no easy solution for it, that she could see. She would have to wait and see what transpired between them.