<div class="floatright">(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/e/e3/Eternal.jpg)</div><br/>Rapture paused a few moments to look at the oath.  It sounded familiar, but her expression made clear that she didn't quite place it or what it meant.  However, she had a counter for all the rest.<br/><br/>"It's easy to fall into corruption when you're given far too much that you haven't earned and you somehow get it into your head that you're owed," she agreed.  "And take it from a former slave - myself - that it's a poor life at best.  We're human beings, and even if we may not always be in a situation where open debate can be given, I'll listen in private.  There's far too much about Creation that I still don't know, and we need all the experts we can get, both those coming into their own and those who already are.  Far better to build, and I don't expect the corrupt money of the Dragons to last forever the way they spend it, while an empire can be built on nothing but sand if one but takes the time to recognize the lack of an unnecessary foundation."<br/><br/>Rapture then bowed in return to the ifrit, said in Old Realm, "<You are released from your service after the next time you say the word 'Goodbye.'  Thank you for keeping everything safe for us, even if it may not have been by choice.>"  Then she repeated it for the others in the common tongue.  Although Rapture didn't expect the ifrit to stay much longer, she wanted that choice to be hers, the ability to leave to be on her own terms, rather than a callous dismissal.