<div class="floatright">(https://i.pinimg.com/originals/3d/42/7d/3d427df3d29fc3adfe98667e350ce9f6.jpg)</div><br/><br/>Songbird did not know what to say to him.   Yet at the very same time, she knew all she wanted to say.   Before she can give voice to her answer,  they are interrupted by one of the caravan guards.<br/><br/><strong>"My apologies for the interruption.   You have been invited to dine with my commander this evening at his campfire."</strong><br/><br/>Songbird remains silent with the interruption.   Leaving Hellhound to accept the invitation or not.   Regardless of which way he answers, the guard takes the answer and leaves them alone.   With this Songbird now gives her response.<br/><br/>""You ask why this concubine would give up all to belong to you.   I give up nothing,  I know not the Thakur, he knows not me.  I have seen the world in these few days in ways I have never seen the world."<br/><br/>Of course,  she is a concubine a pampered slave that knew not beyond the gilded cage that has been her life.  This trip is her seeing the world first.   He could deliver anyone as her.  The Thakur knew not who she was.    He could help a common slave laborer and elevate her to such a position.  Or he could tell the truth and go to buy her legally.  Finally, he could just disappear with her.<br/>