There is this young boy, about 12 years of age, a slave, that is being taken care of by his aunt. He often times gets in trouble with his master, which is also his aunt's master. So every time he gets in trouble, his aunt has to come up with a punishment and has to agree to follow it so their master wont do anything more severe than she plans to do. For example, he accidentally drops a dish on the floor and his master and the wife see it. The wife gets very upset, and starts talking very negative about the boy. The master came up with a plan to whoop him but the boy's aunt stepped in and said that she will take care of it. She told the master that she will make sure that he gets nothing else to eat for the next day and that he can sleep in the kitchen on the floor where its cold for the night.
The boy's aunt always lectures and gets on him about every little thing he does because if it wasn't for her, he would be getting a taste of the severe punishments that she use to get from the master back in her younger days. She doesn't want him to have to feel that, so she always does what she can to help the boy before she leaves or dies and try to give him some knowledge on how to keep himself out of trouble. My prediction is that the boy will try to run away and either get caught because he's not that smart or somebody else will lure him in to run with them.
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