<div class="floatright">(https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/DhNtnTaN4HLgQLt3wpnXwD-1200-80.jpg)</div>Lord Balebrook looks calmly to Josephine, listening her demands and then replies; "Blasphemous affront? That's quite curious statement by someone who lives on borders of Free States...sounds more what someone from Atlantica would say would it not?" He looks calmly towards Josephine as he continues; "Now as reminder, slavery is legal in Free States, owning slaves is legal as well. Azure City forbids act of enslaving someone but not bring slaves in there. Part of that ownership is ability to do what you want with your slaves, including inhumane and cruel things. Of course slaves do not want willingly serve under cruelty so common sense slave owners who want slaves whom to trust and depend on treat them more humane manner, like any servant or employee.<br/><br/>"But the main matter you should consider is that<em>she asked for punishment</em>, she felt guilt and she was partly responsible causing the mess. So as her master I give her what she needs to help improve herself. So besides gross overreaction you do not stand in any true moral grounds champion for her cause first place. However, if you take a shot at me I will immediately call for this caravan guards and command my slave defend me and it means besides running risk killing me you would face my slave figthing you. Now, as reminder; no compulsion forces her to figth or defend me. She can run away anytime she desires, only consequence being she would be marked as bandit and get bounty on her head. So, think why I feel confident in the fact she will defend and fight for me by her free will hmm?"