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Agreeing to go into service is easy. No harder than signing up for the Marines. He's spent so long serving his country, it's a comfort to know he'll be acting in service again.
ex-marine finds renewed purpose in life in this heartwarming story of devotion
hear-and-obey
"'Something' is good. The entire concept of having a boyfriend is so soft-world that I would be embarrassed to show myself at the Academy."
imitate-the-sun
"Mm." Kiss. "Mine should too."
He settles in and closes his eyes and holds Chris closer than he strictly needs to.
imitate-the-sun
He still doesn't remember more than flashes of what he'd dreamed about, but when he wakes up he's warm and comfortable and in Chris's arms.
It's 5:53. He watches Chris's face for seven minutes, and then gets out of bed as carefully as he can and gets started making breakfast and coffee.
hear-and-obey
"Very good." Chris kisses his forehead. "I release you from training. I am absolutely incapable of training you in an unbiased way. I assume you don't want me to call Grendel."
hear-and-obey
Breakfast!
"If Anderson approves," he says, "I think the best thing would be for me to buy you. 'Something' is not a recognized kind of person in the Marketplace, and you'd be an atrocious trainer and a worse spotter. It'd add to my debt but that can't be helped and I'm not going to pay it off for decades anyway."
hear-and-obey
"I don't know how well you'd do at Alex and Grendel's, you'd have to play a role in the training of the novices but you might do fine with teaching them self-defense and helping Rachel teach them to clean and so on and letting me handle the punishments. --You can speak freely and ask questions, you are for now a free person."
imitate-the-sun
"I mostly just don't have much to say — I can help with teaching self-defense but I have very little experience with teaching."
hear-and-obey
"As much as I'd like to spend the next year honing you into the pinnacle of slave perfection, I don't much fancy adding another year's worth of rent and food to my debt with Anderson, and so I am going to have to train. So we talk Grendel and Alex into hiring you on, or I train independently, and either way you'll end up having to help. --Quite selfishly, I'd like you as my assistant, if Anderson lets me be a slave and you're my assistant we can arrange to be sold together."
hear-and-obey
"I usually recommend six months or a year. Two years in exceptional circumstances, such as a slave from a Marketplace family."