system around him. He became something else entirely.An asset with potential multiplication value.
The purchase was expensive. Exceptionally so. But the Viscount did not hesitate. In his mind, he was not buying a man. He was buying future generations.
And that is where the story of Pata Seca truly begins.
Because what followed was not simply a life of labor. It was a life shaped by a system that treated reproduction as economics, family as output, and human beings as instruments of expansion.
Roque José Florêncio was likely born
