A Man’s Indentures
Fantasy/romance short. A man indentured is dispatched to an island to be a bailiff’s bodyguard.
13.5k, M/M. A man indentured for his parents’ debts is dispatched to a magic-poor island to serve as bodyguard to the local bailiff — an imperfectly beautiful man who has indentures of his own.
Adapted from a TweetFic. CWs for economic violence and the violence of poverty as a cudgel throughout, non-consensual body modification, debts, sexual violence, etc.
His name is Josep Garnet, and he’s the most beautiful man on the island, perhaps even in the world.
It’s the commonly held opinion on the boat over. He overhears a man telling another traveller — not an indenture like Denari, but a tourist, a student of architecture and history intent on sketching the results of non-magical building techniques — how pretty he is, how even the straightest of men wants to fuck his arse or make use of his mouth, and two of the crew laugh and nod their heads and murmur their agreement.
He assumes it’s the same as it ever is — one man gushing about a favourite whore.
Garnet is pretty, true enough, when Denari lays eyes on him.
He’s tall with exaggerated features — high cheekbones, a narrow waist, a plump arse and thighs…
