<strong>"I was expecting five slaves.  But I see only four here.  What happened to the last one?"</strong><br/><br/>The slaver already knew the answer to that.  This smuggler had five sex slaves when she left the dock in her boat.  But one of them managed to escape.<br/><br/>He stared hard into the half-elf sorceress' eyes.  He inhaled through his nose and exhaled through his mouth, sighing in frustration.<br/><br/><strong>"I'm disappointed in you, Kendal.  I expected more of you.  Still, at least you managed to smuggle four of my slaves to me.  Here's your payment."</strong><br/><br/>He tossed a palm-sized sack at her, but soon after it ended up in her hand, the small bag disappeared.  All that was inside was a rock that immediately engulfed her in magical darkness.<br/><br/>Unable to see even with her darkvision, she also couldn't hear anything or say anything.  The absence of sound accompanied the absence of light thanks to casting of a Silence spell around her.<br/><br/><del>Her consciousness also became non-existent.  Her eyelids became heavy and her breathing deepened as she succumbed to a Sleep spell.</del><br/><br/>Her consciousness should have also become non-existent.  Her eyelids should have become heavy and her breathing should have deepened as she succumbed to a Sleep spell.  But her fey ancestry prevented the magic slumber from working on her, and instead the slaver had to enter the darkness with her.  His Devil's Sight allowed him to easily get behind her, then wrap an arm around her slender neck in a rear naked choke.  The pressure of his muscular arm on the blood vessels on the side of her neck kept the blood from reaching her brain, and within moments she was unconscious.<br/><br/>The darkness and silence ended, and she was in the arms of the slaver, who caught her before she fell to the ground.<br/><br/><strong>"Just because you only brought me four sex slaves doesn't mean I still can't have my fifth one."</strong><br/><br/>He laid her gently on the ground, then had his henchmen hand him rope so he could properly tie her up.<br/><br/>He worked quickly and skillfully, binding her hands behind her back, then wrapping her gorgeous half-elf figure in a harness of rope that criss-crossed over her perky breasts and flat tummy.<br/><br/>He secured a crotch rope on her, too, her skirt and panties being the only things protecting her nethers from the roughness of the rope.<br/><br/>The slaver added a collar around her neck.  He tied another piece of rope to the front of the crotch rope and looped it through the ring in her collar, the rope now serving as a leash.  He wrapped the end of the rope around his fist and gave it a tug which pulled the crotch rope up into her sex, hard enough to wake her up from her slumber.<br/><br/>Right when she tried to speak or breathe, he stuffed a ball gag into her mouth and secured it tightly around her head.<br/><br/>He forced her to follow him by the crotchrope, and the other sex slaves she smuggled followed behind her, similarly bound.<br/><br/><div align="center">***</div><br/>A short journey later, the slaver gave the sex slaves a quick tour of the slave market.<br/><br/><strong>"Here is where you will be put up for auction tomorrow.  Before that, you will be here, in the slave market, available for appraisal.  And before that you will be under the slave market, here, in the holding cells."</strong><br/><br/>Guards opened the cage doors in the dimly lit holding cells.  The smuggler and the other four slaves were escorted inside the same holding cell.<br/><br/>The slaver collected his gold for the delivery, then went on his way.<br/><br/>The guard captain said,<strong>"Listen carefully, sex slaves.  If you want your hands free, back those asses up to the bars of these cages and we'll cut them loose.  As for the rest of the bindings, you're going to have to get them off yourselves.  Don't try to remove your collars.  Otherwise this will happen."</strong><br/><br/>He pointed at the smuggler turned sex slave, Kendal.  He pointed a small rod at her.  There was the sound of electricity building up followed by a shock from the collar around her neck.<br/><br/>After the guard-captain cut the sex slaves free, he exited, leaving behind one guard to keep an eye on the girls in the holding cell.<br/><br/>He knew that the smuggler who brought in the sex slaves was now a sex slave herself.  He wondered how they would react to each other.<br/><br/><br/><br/>Edit: Ampere pointed out that half-elves can't be put to sleep by magic.