At the market gates

Nehemias, the bastard son of Petrus Villus -a recently deceased, wealthy Mohrevian merchant- was given as a personal-service slave to Petrus' younger legitimate child Malachias a few years ago, when Malachias turned sixteen. Although its owner and former half-brother often punishes it hardly, submits it to all kinds of sexual vexation, and never allows it to touch a woman, the slave still considers itself fortunate. It bears a privileged position among the many other family servants: it is well fed, it is ordered to maintain itself clean, it can keep its hair, and it is sometimes commanded to help Master Malachias with his new business duties as the only heir of his late father.