Asher put his hand on his big belly, he pulled himself up from inside the chimney and threw himself on the roof. He felt a sharp pain in his stomach and unconsciously let out a loud moan, then immediately pressed his hand over his mouth.
He stretched himself on the ground and reached the wall and leaned on it. It was raining non-stop and his thin body was shaking. He looked at the sky above his head and said:
"What is the meaning behind these tears of yours? Are you crying over my impending fate? Wasn't it you who showed signs to me all this time to indirectly let me know that if I don't run away, death will await me?"
He remembered all the efforts that his master had made to get him pregnant. Pots full of boiled herbs that he placed in front of him and asked him to inhale their steam.
Their smell made Asher sick, but as soon as he wanted to get up from the pot, his master would hold his head tightly and put it in the pot, and Asher would inhale the fragrant steam as he cried.
Master Samuel also spent a considerable time of the night doing that with him and repeated this so much that Asher's lower body became numb.
He repeatedly emptied his sperm into Asher's body and then inserted long thick needles into his uterus, a method that wizards had written in his family's ancient instructions and claimed would increase the chances of pregnancy.
Asher would cry and beg him to let him go, but Samuel would slap him and tell him to shut up or he would make him regret ever entering that house.
Yes, Asher had come to that house of his own accord and had become Samuel's servant, and the reason was that he wanted to save himself from his miserable life in his older brother's house.
In fact, when he thought about it well, he saw that the master's inhumane treatment with him was still not as scary as what he had gone through in his brother's house.
So why did he want to run away? Now that the sperm of his child and the master was sealed inside his body and that child had grown so much. Where did he want to go with his physical condition and when he didn't have a single penny in his pocket?
Tears gathered in his eyes and he said to himself:
"Then how happy I was to be accepted by my master. At first he was so kind to me that I thought he might be in love with me.
Am I not greedy and ungrateful? If my master did not accept me, I would have to go back to my brother's house and be beaten until I die.
Since I have become pregnant, the master has treated me well. But I kept seeing dead animals in front of my eyes and I thought to myself maybe these are signs of something sinister happening in this house.
So I have to go, if not for myself, for our baby. But master, we will meet again one day, maybe then you will know that I loved you and you... loved me?
I feel that you loved me. Sometimes you hugged me and caressed me gently. I wish you would always stay like that."
As he was sobbing, he got up, went to the edge of the roof, held his stomach with one hand, and then jumped to the edge of the other roof, not knowing whether he would reach his destination or not.
