(A Silver and Zero production) Plaything

[Maero]

"...Very well!" the orc said. "But if I win, then we get the girl." It was not a proposition, but a stake, the stakes of the duel. Of course, that also meant that Master could set his own stake, perhaps the lives of the other orcs, or, in the likely case of the emissary's death, the slaves they brought to bargain with would be his. Or he could stake nothing. If they came back with no girl, they may be killed. If they came back with no girl or slaves, they would definitely be killed. The choice was his.