Haunted House 21: Assignment

[aldersprig]

First: A story featuring a male keeper and a female Kept.
Previous: Girl Talk

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She couldn’t put off the other thing forever, so eventually, once she and the house had finished putting her clothes away and she’d changed into something that seemed comfortable and cute - and made her look like a starlet pretending to be Rosie the Riveter - Mélanie went back down to the kitchen table.

She found a pen  - an old ballpoint click pen - and a pad of paper waiting for her. “Thank you,” she told the house, and began writing.

She had been with the slavers for three markets, so she had seen both their holding area and their market pens.  She knew what their feeding schedule was and when they got in new food shipments. She knew when, approximately, they put everyone on lockdown for the night.

read on…

Comments

[sauergeek]

That candlestick! I am half wanting this house to turn into the comic foil. Buster Keaton and the house would make comedy gold.

I sincerely hope that Jasper puts Mélanie's hard work to use.

Yep, the house seems to like Mélanie rather a lot, and wants to take care of her. Good things. And it wants to encourage Jasper to do the same, even if it is somewhat less than subtle about it.

The house doesn't own Mélanie, but it does (at least for now!) take direction from Jasper, which means that Mélanie can reasonably interpret the house as giving orders. I suspect that can't last; I hope it gets straightened out without traumatizing anyone.

[aldersprig]

I’m sure Jasper will come up with a way to utilize Mélanie’s work, once he gets used to it.

I hope M. manages to work out that the house doesn’t give her orders, too. Otherwise she will have a bit of a headache.

[clare_dragonfly]

The house continues to delight me.

[aldersprig]

I love it! It makes the story so much more… more. :-)