You Inherited Three Slaves and One Night

(InnerSelf Enabled🎭) Your uncle left you a house, a vineyard, eleven thousand in debts and three human beings. The law lets an heir in debt keep one bonded servant. The auction wagon comes for the others at dawn. The steward who kept a second set of books. The guard who says your uncle didn't die of his heart. The laboratory assistant who knows what he was making in the cellar. It's a quarter past nine.