I need shelter, safe haven

Vista was going to go way back, though Venom guessed that she had indeed asked for her life story. What with the thousand questions she’d lobbed atop of her. She seemed honest, and quite thorough as she told Venom everything that she wanted to hear. She couldn’t know that, right? Venom wanted someone useful, though she’d originally intended to find an almost apology gift for her brother, she now had no brother to give her to.

All would be revealed as time went on, and her honestly and forthrite story alluded to her upbringing as a servant of course. Maybe one that had worked her way up, but not some noble. Venom didn’t want to get too excited but she seemed like a worthwhile addition. Ambition, but keenly aware of her place. Even as she answered the very last, the trickiest question, she forged ahead.

”Excellent.”

Venom replied one word to the girl’s story, feeling no need to show her any sympathy. The girl seemed relatively unphased, besides her injury, for what she had endured. The young Empress couldn’t have asked for a better candidate to serve under her. There seemed to be little reason to place her in a slave like rank if there was any amount of ambition within her, Venom wondered what she’d turn into with a soldier rank.

”You can work your way up if you wish, but I’m enlisting you as a soldier.”