“ The bond of love is stronger than the bond of blood.” tenet of Orbona, Olympic goddess of orphans     Third Hive Day of Mortis, 126 HR Sarin walked across the courtyard of the Barracks together with his adopted daughter Yaëlla. Legally speaking, she was still his slave, not his child, but in their hearts, he and his wife Faith had never seen her as anything else than their daughter. The beginning of this story lay almost nine years in the past, when he had been a prefect under Factol Delazar and Yaëlla, then eight years old, had been a slave to a cambion prince and favorite of Graz'zt. The cambion had been doing business in Sigil and had brought some of his slaves with him, including Yaëlla. The tiefling girl had used her stay in the city to escape. Unfortunately, she had been recaptured - by a decurion under Sarin's command. For slaves, escaping was usually punishable by death in the Abyss, and demons cared little whether they were children. S...