“I will never give myself to you Dar......” she began, quickly correcting herself seeing his eyebrow raise in warning “master.......... this is not me........this is not who I am”

He however, had smiled like he were humouring a small child

“We will see.........I see much in you Kindra......more than I believe you see in yourself. The question I guess is weither I am the right master to bring it out of you........or whether it will be another Master who does”

Taking her eyes from him, to look up at the wooden rafters she had savaged her lip for a few seconds thoughts all milling through her mind before once more turning to him, tears rising into her large eyes

“Please, please...........let me go........this is not who I am Master........just let me go back to my life....”

Again she had seen the small shadow cross his face before his hand had moved to gently allow a thumb to rub away the tear which moved down her cheek

“You will adjust and you will learn” he had said more surely before adding

“Goodnight Kindra” as she had looked at him her lip still quivering

“Sleep” before she had once more felt the darkness descend on her taking her once more to the welcome oblivion of sleep.

The next morning Kindra had awoken, her eyes snapping open as she had instantly known where she was, sensing Darks presence close by. As she had sat up, he had moved into the bedroom area causing Kindra to move up further against the wall, the coarse sheet under the skins pulled up high around her neck, her hair disturbed from sleep falling around her like a protective blanket.

Dark had moved into the room, having been awake for over an hour, he had sensed her awaken, and had found himself keen to see her again, to once more look into those wonderful blue eyes which were now staring at him warily. Moving to the bed he had half lain down beside her, his head on his hand as he had smiled over at her

“Well good morning; I was beginning to think that you had managed to find a way of extending normal sleep”