Cora was use to someone deciding for her what to do...  so being close to the nice woman seemed to be the safest location.  She moved to the straw bed, and sat down a little distance from the woman.  Just far enough that she didn't have to crane her neck to look up into the darkness... and see her eyes.  She tried to look at her a little more closely, there was... something different about her.  (other than she liked to hang upside down).  Did she have a tail?  horns?  long elven ears?<br/><br/>"Yes," she started, "it was the pet of a wizard.  He bought be on the market, from my first master."  She paused, why did she feel like telling this stranger her story?  No one had ever really cared about her... or what she did... what she thought before.  There was something about her.  "My first master was sure I.. well, there were a few things missing and... he sold me on the market.  I was cheap, I had one black spot on my sign for steeling.  I think the wizard bought me to feed to his ugly dragon. (She spat on the floor as she mentions the beast).  And well, he... it... didn't eat me.  I was so scared, I thought it was clawing at me... but it was really clawing at my clothes, tearing them off.  I was scraped up a bit, I ended up all bloody from his tearing at me... but once he got my clothes off... he "  and here she paused again... rocking a bit as she thought through the story, "He pushed me to the floor and mounted me.  The wizard laughed at it.  Then he made me never wear underclothes.  The thing could push me down and pull up my skirts any time it wanted."<br/><br/>"This morning it got into the wizards potions, and drank something...  fell asleep.  I don't know what I was thinking..   It just seemed that...  I could take it.  I used one of my daggers and I cut it's wings off.  Then I was going to cut its head off, and the wizard walked in.  And the next thing I know...  I'm waking up as the city guard is at his tower.  They are talking about me.. sending me here"<br/><br/>"He couldn't sell me again.  I would have had two black spots on my sign.  No one would have bought me.  I'm worthless now."  she said.   She sniffed, trying not to cry.  Her world was serving, being a slave, being what someone else needed.  And now she was nothing.<br/>