<hr/><div class="floatleft">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/7/72/Chestnut.jpg)</div><br/><strong>Name:</strong>Nell Robinson<br/><strong>Faction:</strong>Unknown<br/><strong>Date:</strong>20 May 1876<br/><strong>Time of Day:</strong>after midnight<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Golden Mare<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Big Jake, Scooter, CLOSED<br/><hr/><br/>She'd had an early night, successfully training one of the new girls in how to act properly with a customer, and succeeded in training the girl more than she'd thought possible in a night--so much so that Miss Greene had given her the rest of the evening off.  She had taken the opportunity to take a nice hot bath and had read a little before turning in early.  She'd spent time primping in heaven knew how long, just taking time for herself.  It was a luxury not often won, and she had brushed her hair til it shone.  Not that much anyone here in Gomorra might notice, but it made her happy to do so...<br/><br/>All that self-pampering luxury seemed a dream now, compared to the current nightmare, the cold-steel barrel of the pistol pressed against her head banished any thought of a mere whimper of fright.  Between the dark and the cloying, itching roughness of the burlap sack over her head, all Nell could do was nod frantically at the man, and hope she might wake up from the nightmare.  Whatever bravado that got her out of England had left her, and it was all she could do to not raise the alarm.  She still stiffened at the man's touch, a natural defense to anyone she wasn't paid to let touch her taking the liberty on their own time.<br/><br/>She was not yet broken enough to decide to let any man have at her without decent coin and clearance besides.  She was not yet reined in enough to be content with sitting beside a fire with children at her feet.  Not yet.  She had her life to live.  So, she ground her teeth and bit her tongue, and prayed the man with the gun to her head wouldn't get it into his to strip her bare of her shift or anything else untoward, as it was.