Hot [work] | Life With A Slave Feeling

The cook’s "hot" was a heat of smoke and embers. It burned the eyes, parched the throat, and left the skin feeling tight and cracked. Iron pots, skillets, and kettles radiated heat long after they were moved. There are documented accounts of enslaved cooks fainting onto the brick floors, only to be revived with a bucket of well water and sent back to turn the spit. Feeling hot here meant living in a constant state of near-combustion, smelling one’s own sweat mix with the scent of pork fat and ash.

He knelt. He cupped his hands. The first sip did not just wet his throat—it unlocked something. A memory. His mother’s voice. Before , when the word “slave” was just a sound in a book, not a brand on his soul. He drank again, and the cold ran through him like a bell being rung. life with a slave feeling hot

If you did not intend to search for the video game and are looking for a paper on the psychological or philosophical concept of "feeling hot" (emotion/sensation) in the context of slavery: The cook’s "hot" was a heat of smoke and embers