<strong>Name:</strong>Elfi<br/><strong>Position: </strong>Ship's Slave<br/><strong>Location:</strong>Galley<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Serenity<br/><br/>Serenity always made you feel good.  If she was a general, she'd whip soldier boys into such a frenzy they'd take on the enemy with clay swords and bad shoes and win.  She'd made Elfi feel good and smart and pretty and, best of all, safe.  Elfi wished she was rich just so she could hire Serenity one day as her own Companion and spend the entire day feeling like she was important.<br/><br/>Like that would ever happen.<br/><br/>Still, she looked up from the carpet and smiled, really smiled, at Serenity.  It was so full of trust and joy that it lit up her face from the inside.<br/><br/>"Thank you, Mistis," she said quiet like but from the heart.  "I don't know why a lady like you bothers with me, but maybe that's why you're a lady and other women are just women."<br/><br/>Elfi sat quiet for a few minutes, thinking and gradually coming to the decision to tell Serenity her secret.<br/><br/>"There's someone on the ship no one else but me knows about," she said solemnly.  "She's a good girl, don't make no fuss or bug no one, but if anyone found out about her I don't know what they'd do.  I'm afeared they'd make fun of her, or take her away from me, or throw her out the airlock or just..."  She trailed off, visibly upset by the thoughts in her head.<br/><br/>"I bring her things.  Today, I stole some sacking and made her a nice blanket and I talk to her and hug her when I can.  I just worry about her and I don't know what I'd do if someone took her from me."<br/><br/>"That's my secret.  Ain't no one but you and that God fellow Shepherd's is always gumming about and me know about her."