One Day At A Time

Again the woman spoke and Chimera scoffed lightly, though there was no malice in the sound. "Everyone has moments that they aren't proud of. You either accept them and move on or you let them eat you." The things that he'd done to Siren when they were little, the things that he'd done to Dalila, the lives that he gave to others for coin... if Chimera hadn't learned to accept and live with his choices, he very well might have been eternally at the bottom of a bottle.

"If you do intend to stay, everyone is expected to contribute as they are able," the king informed the woman. Everyone that fought patrolled. Everyone that healed cared for gardens and cultivated... whatever healers made. Those with the skill for building improved the structures. Everyone did their part.

Almost as an afterthought, Chimera added somewhat softly. "No one will look down on you for having been a slave," just in case that was something that the woman may have worried about. "Two of my queens and my consort are former slaves." If anything, having been a slave would help others to relate to her more easily.

"Speech"