<strong>Name:</strong>Elfi<br/><strong>Position:</strong>Ship's Slave<br/><strong>Location: </strong>Galley<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Serenity<br/><br/>"I wish you were my mama," Elfi told Serenity during the hug.  "You wouldn't have let daddy sell me to Master Captain."  She clung to Serenity a little bit, more than a little bit, but the Companion was patient and gently but firmly ended the hug.<br/><br/>Elfi listened with big eyes and an open mouth as Serenity divulged her own secret.<br/><br/>"That ain't right, Mistis," she said at the end, and reached up to touch Serenity's face just below her eye.  She caught a single tear as her thumb dislodged it and wiped it off on her shift.  "Ain't right a lady like you crying on account of what they'd done to you.  My pa, he didn't nohow want me no more and figured I could be worth some whiskey if he sold me.  But I was a big girl.  And it ain't like I miss him since he didn't want me no more.  But you," she touched Serenity's face again, this time with both hands, and collected more of the barely shed tears.  "You was just a young'un, a baby child and they took your ma and pa away.  Ain't right," she repeated and seemed mad.<br/><br/>"You done climbed out of all that and are a Companion.  A Companion," she emphasized, clearly putting them on a godlike level.  "And you miss them so much you'd go right back there, fall out of this shuttle and that pretty dress and the privileges you earned just so be with them again.  Ain't right."<br/><br/>"Folks like that, that'd do that, need killing.  Gut shooting in the belly killing."<br/><br/>"Please, Mistis, don't cry no more.  I won't tell no one, not even the Cap'n," she promised and tried to do what Serenity had done so effortlessly; tried to pull Serenity into a comforting hug.