Hen

This article pertains to the Reketta slang, not the actual fowl.   Hen has developed a strange terminology across reketta culture. It was once thought to be used merely as a way of speaking between male and female, pertaining to a mature female of their race, akin to Woman, Cow, Bitch, Vixen, etc. It likely was then quickly associated with early matriarchal habits, where females would hold unfertilized eggs back and make them earn it, and be delighted to lay future eggs for more leverage. So akin to the fowl, they laid eggs and were known to guard them, and while reketta may dispute they came up with the term first, the agricultural term applies further away from them.   Future developments have lead the word a bit astray, especially once the empire was fired up. Reketta began refering to hens as those more poor, trying to escape military labor and service by claiming they had eggs to take care of, and would try to produce offspring with anyone to prove that point. It quickly adapted more to be associated with both prostitutes, poverty, and in some cases was used in better terms with 'professional hen' breeders that noble Houses wanted as higher quality genetics. House Feather were among the first to blur the lines, and more closely cultivate habits of brothels.   Even now, Hen still makes a strange mix of terminology that is highly sensitive to context. Some still conservatively use the word for any reketta female, while others use it between marks of either shame or attractiveness. Its often in the way its said, and even a professional Hen might say the term with a sour taste as they disavow the actions of the ragged street form of 'Hen'. The rest of this article will be speaking more strictly of those that are hired in professionally for a reputable House.