A Slave Is Best When Exploited

I’d seen something like that before.

A meme about locking an author in solitary confinement, feeding them nothing but fried dumplings for all three meals, and not letting them out until the manuscript was finished.

It was used when the writer was being irresponsible, or, on the contrary, when the story was so fun you wanted them to keep writing all day.

When I saw that meme, I just thought, Well, okay, and moved on. I figured it had nothing to do with me.

But now it did.

“Hang in there, strength. Hang in there, strength. Leon, fighting!”

Aurora was cheering me on enthusiastically.

I was sitting at her desk, busily writing away.

It was my mistress’s order to write in her place, and the force of that command meant I couldn’t budge from the chair.

‘I never thought I’d end up being the one involved.’...