You are told to follow the shop attendant. You would've argued about being talked to like that but for some reason you do it without question. You notice everything looks bigger, yet the same, and then you pass by a reflective surface and see a child with dark curly hair. You stop when you realize this is you. Somehow, it's not a shock. Your quickly brought back to the world by someone pulling you...by the chain-leash. "Move it boy!" shouted the man you realize was a slave trader. You get up and try to pull the collar off. But something's wrong. It's not stretching at all like it did when you put it on. It really was made of iron now.
The slave trader pulled on the chain-leash again, this time pulling you down. You get up and try to run but are pulled down again. " Give this one 10 lashes," said the slave trader, "He tried to escape." You were quickly taken and lashed with a whip. Then they took you aside and said, "Are you going to do that again?" "No," you say in a child's voice. They take the short chain off the collar and bolt on a new, 3-foot long one. Then you are given a new tunic and led out to the auction platform, or atleast it's equivalent to one.
Before you are lead onto it, the one leading you pushes you over to a line of boys your age, and shackles you into it. Your legs in heavy irons attached to a long chain connected to the other boys irons. They then put your hands behind your back and shackle them together in very heavy irons. Then the man leads you onto the platform by the chain leash and the auction begins. The time seemed to drag on forever. When you where one of four boys there, a man in green robes walked up and inspected you. Before you knew it, you and the other three boys were sold to the man.
After being lead off the platform, your hands and legs were unchained but the man who bought you, or your master, had the other boys chained in the back of a cattle cart. You, on the other hand, had your hands rechained behind your back and were chained to the back of the cattle cart by the chain leash. You guessed it was becuase your master had found out about you trying to escape. Then you were off. You barely even remember that you were wearing a costume.