Moonspear What a tangled web we weave

To her shock, Dash apologized. Should he not be cruel and taunting to her, ordering her about and all? She was new to the experience of being a slave, but to her knowledge slaves were not to be treated kindly. Perhaps she would ask him of this. After a moment of silence, in which he settled down opposite her, she begun falteringly. "Dash...why are you kind to me?" 

She hoped that he would not deny it, or change tact and be cruel. She regreted the question almost as soon as she saided it, and bowed her head, averting eye contact.