Visit your captive

You decided it was best to visit your captive first. You had some business left unfinished with her.

She had been kept in your dungeon. As you entered the cell she was being held in, you made certain you yourself were unarmed. It wouldn't have been the first time an assassin was able to kill a lord with his own weapon.

When you saw her, you noticed she was dressed in rags. Something simple to keep her warm at night, and covered by day. But what attracted you to her was her dark skin. You had rarely seen a person with a skin as black as hers. You found it exotic.

"So, you finally came." She spat at you.

"I have." You retorted. "I have been busy."

She looked angry at you.

"With what, killing my people?"

Your gaze met hers.

"With doing what my shogun requested of me."

"Fuck your shogun."

Within an instant, you slapped your hand across her face.

"Nobody insults the shogun in my face. Least of all a filthy assassin like yourself."

Your captive placed a hand on her painful cheek. She looked like she planned on insulting your lord again, but refrained from doing to.

"So what now, you're going to kill me?"

"For infiltrating my camp, killing three of my most faithful retainers as well as attempting to kill me, a daimyo? Yes, you deserve ****. But no, your fate shall be a different one."

Doe looked at you pensive.

"Odd, I would have sworn you'd have me killed. Either as some silly notion of vengeance, or the even more stupid justice."

"Perhaps your culture believes in punishing crime through payment, but in my culture crime is punished through work."

As you explained the deeper meaning of her punishment, you stepped towards her.

"Your crime shall be considered absolved, only after you have provided me with three new retainers."

Doe's eyes widened. "You don't meen ..."

"Yes." You told her. "You shall not leave this place until you have birthed three children. Each of these shall be taken from you and trained to be my personal guard. To protect my life, the very life you tried to take."