Topless and in her sarong, Elexsa spent the early afternoon serving spice tea to a group of babbling, overweight, middle-aged free women. They were very demanding and ordered her to serve in the exact proper way in which a slave girl would to a free woman of wealth. She would have to kneel to each of them, bow her head and put forth the cup and remain kneeling until it was taken from her off the saucer. When each lady was finished she would have to kneel again with the saucer until they returned the cup so she could refill it. She listened silently to their discussion.
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