Mmm. Kind of? [Jester sounds conflicted about that. Really, losing Molly had hurt more. For a few reasons.] Fjord was...well, he was like you, actually. The whole submissive thing? It was better for him to be gone.

[She takes a deep breath, nuzzling a little more into the hug a little more.]

Plus when we first got here, me and Fjord, there was this place they make us go, everyone they've brought here, and they were...awful. But especially to the submissives, they made people kneel on the floor if they wanted to eat. Stuff like that.

So when he left again, I was kind of...happy.