He quirked his shoulder a little at the request, but nodded. Morning seemed a long way away... Even evening seemed a few hours away yet. But if bed was all she craved, he was glad to let her have it. "Certainly, if you wish. As I have alluded to, you are free to recover for a while. While I do not promise that I won't have use for you... I won't put you through anything too challenging until you are well." Regardless of how he was willing to let her sleep... That didn't apply just yet. For the moment he kept talking to her, and with that demanding at least some portion of her attention.<br/><br/>"What I mean when I say I am going to collar you is first quite literal; we will go out, buy you a collar, and you will wear it as a sign of your subservience and my accepting of you. More importantly, though, it is symbolic that I have accepted you as my loyal little slave-girl, and you swear yourself to me. Currently you are my property and I can do what I will with you; once you wear the collar you will be mine through choice... If not solely through choice. You will also be given a slightly higher position... No longer the slave that crawls around the house, save where I insist upon it, but more bound through loyalty to me and me alone. You understand what I am saying, I hope?" He paused a moment. His fingers were dancing on her skin, rubbing up and down the thankfully unharmed flesh of her back; they remained high, focusing around her shoulder and the top of her spine. His arm was loosely draped around her, and the other crossed his own body to pull her arm similarly over him, whereupon he doted on it with the same kind of easy strokes of his fingers.<br/><br/>"There is one or two things that you must do before I will accept you, though. And even then I will need to know that you are eager through more than just fear; though considering how fast you have fallen I suspect this is the case. Your thoughts?" It wasn't that he asked for them, but now that he did he tipped his head to look at her, with his eyes searching her curiously.<div class="messageTextEndMarker"> </div>