He hissed his frustration at not being understood, but other than his voice freezing a bit, his annoyance stayed out of his voice. "Oh, so I should be content to be used, when I just want companionship? Attraction I enjoy, faithful service due to earning it is ego boosting. Being someone's dinner, a fuck toy, and a virtual slave owner is not. No, you are not a slave, don't even start that line of conversation, a slave would have been beaten unconscious for that last set of comments. You have a collar, yes, but I force nothing upon you other than what you would do anyways, and you are compensated accordingly for your actions. You are, at absolute worst, an indentured servant, a slave in name only.<br/><br/>But back to your points, wealth and power? I never wanted any of that. I am here because I am as trapped as you, though my cage is far more gilded than yours, and my owner less upfront and honest than I to you. If I was truly free, I could leave all this, and not worry about reprisals. I was ALLOWED to leave the guild killer position because I served exceptionally well for far longer than most, and I happened to be as close to a friend to the Guild Master as I could be. Any less of any of that, and I would have the assassins guild paying me a visit, and not to discuss a target.<br/><br/>My life is not terrible, never said it was, I just wanted something a bit more... personal out of it. A family, companions and friends, like what adventurers in the stories have and get, if it is one of the ones told to children, a fairy tail."