The market

[Maero]

Mary was shocked for a moment but began to kiss back and did not resist. She had been trained for this, to be whatever her master wanted her to be, no matter what. Sadly, like all the other elves Arkurus seemed to train, there was a sadness about the sun elf, and her love was passionless and mechanical, more of an exercise than anything else. She had been desensitized towards affection, since she received none from Arkurus and did not know what true love even felt like. Unfortunately, Alex could not afford to start feeling bad for her, since this was a standard characteristic when it came to Arkurus's slaves, and a bleeding heart would be ill suited to live in this mansion unless he deemed it necessary to try to heal ALL the elves who lived there, a task that was monumental to say the least.