These stories feel comfy, but they always open with like normalizing slavery which is a bit gross.
There are other ways to force two characters together.
Yeah, I gotta agree with ya on that. Well, there is some good news at least. It seems that this fantasy world is in the early stages of an Industrial Revolution. Historically speaking, practices like slavery die off as focus shifts from Agrarian to Industrial.
So yeah, a fair chance that slavery within their fantasy world is on the precipice of a sharp decline within the span of a few decades.
idk, just something I found a tad interesting