Get on the merchant’s carriage.

You reluctantly agree. With a nod, you move towards the merchant carriage.

“We can situate you in the back,” one of the peddlers says. All three lead you around the carriage’s rear.

As you approach it, you feel one of them yank the spear out of your hand. “Let me get that for you,” he says as he pulls the weapon away.

You’re surprised by how sudden he is and respond, “No, that’s okay.”

Your eyes turn to the side of the carriage as you speak. One of peddlers pushes aside the cloth covering on the rear of the cabin, showing what’s hidden behind the cart’s linen walls. You gasp as you see iron bars underneath the covers, behind them a group of four, young, naked women.

Before you can turn around and run, you feel the hands of the men roughly take hold of you. “No!” you yelp in resistance as your wrists are quickly restrained. The men do quick work to take the knife from your belt and use it to cut open your top and shorts. In a blink of an eye, and despite your squirming, you are completely naked.

“Let me go! Bastards!” you yell at them, knowing that’s all you can do.

The man that had taken your spear opens the back door of the carriage, letting the other two roughly throw you in with the rest of the naked women.

The barred door of the carriage shuts and locks before you have a chance to dive back at it.

“Cowards! You tricked me!” you continue to yell at the men, but your words have little impact. They have likely heard worse in their time.

“Pipe down, slut!” finally one of the men barks back at you while he re-covers the metal bars with the linen cover, concealing the cart’s true nature as a cage on wheels.

You continue to try and shake the metal bars of the carriage walls in a vain effort.

“It’s no use,” one of the naked girls says to you, seeing you try and rattle the bars open.

“No…” you whimper from between gritted teeth. “What have I done?” You push your forehead against the cold metal bars, sliding down to your knees. You feel the cart begin to move again. The whole body of the carriage rattles you about uncomfortably as your mind races with thought.

After a moment of collecting yourself, you turn to the other girls. All four look roughly your age, all slim and nubile.

“What do they want with us?” you finally have the courage to ask.

“We’re being taken to the market to be sold as slaves,” one of the girls says, clearly lacking any sense of hope in her words.

“Slaves?! But why…How…This can’t be real.”

“Women like us go for quite a bit in town. At least, that’s what the village elder told us.”

You look at the woman with a bit of confusion. “Village elder?”

“Yes, we agreed to help our village—our families—by letting these men take us. Harvest has been harsh for the last few seasons, so the town lacked money. This was the only way.”

The women’s reasoning explained why they lacked any fight, but that didn’t explain why you were suddenly taken.

“You bastards! I never agreed to this! Why me as well?” you yell past the women at the men outside.

“Hey, you wanted a ride, so we’re giving it to you,” you hear one of the peddlers say from outside. “This is just how you’re going repay us. Your village got sacked by orcs didn’t it? Nobody’s going to come looking for you anyway.”

“I think you got off pretty lucky. Better to be sold to a rich nobleman than be sodomized by a bunch of ugly orcs, wouldn’t you say?” one of the other merchants yells while laughing.

You grit your teeth in anger at these disgusting men who would treat you as a mere object to be found on the side of the road. You try and collect yourself and not fall to despair or needless anger. Unlike these other women, you have no reason to be doomed to such a fate. You have to figure out a way to escape.

The inside of the carriage is bare, leaving you with nothing that you could use to make your escape. It may take a while for the carriage to reach town. You could wait until the men open the cage to feed you, or you can try and trick them beforehand.