We May Have All Come on Different Ships, But We're in the Same Boat Now (ZAY)

[Akirapryde]

'This is it,' Zay thought as she corrected her posture and folded her hands on her lap. "This, um, conversation," she said not completely sure of that statement, "has taught me alot. It taught me that it will be a long while until I am able to live like you do." She couldn't help but frown as she added, "if I will ever be ready."

She paused a moment carefully selecting her words, "I am not of these laws you speak of. But the days of the Republic are numbered. So I don't know if these laws will be around to protect me."

Her frown slowly disappeared as she turned her tune more normal. "What I do know is worth. All my life I was beaten and told I have no real value. Never once did anyone really see more in me than just a thing. A smart thing that fucks on command and can fix things."

She tilted her head as she continued, "in your eyes, I see you value you me." She said then gently raised her hand. "I know what I am about to say will not sit well with you. But please know this is what I desire. And I choose this for myself. I choose to serve you. Nor because you own me. But because you have saved me from a nightmare I had long accepted. O know my road ahead will be hard and I will want at times to return to that nightmare." She frowned once more, "because I have doubts and I am more terrified of this freedom than I am of the nightmare."

She dropped her frown and tried to smile, "please accept me. Because I don't know any other way to live right now."