underling

She weeps; he tells her that he will pay for her honor, will give her an underling and money.

Would he feel that he was treated like an underling, like a menial, like a serf?

Separated by millions of years in their lives, Knight and this underling seemed to have met in their death.

When he had pointed that out to an underling he was off again, and Raf was free to continue his crab's progress.