We all know that words can mend fences or hurt as violently as a sword speared into hearts. The following is a conversation that was so poignant to raine that I have saved it to share with both free and slave.   I share this with you for two reasons. First, if you are a slave, it was six long months before I ever heard these words spoken from His lips; they were six very long months when you think of the average couple's time online in its entirety being together day after day lasts about four months. There were months he was totally offline. No emails, no icq messages, no contact at all between us. His long absence happened two days after he blessed me with his collar. If you do not see my point by now, let me explain further. You will know you are truly a slave to a man when you wait (and I do mean wait with no word or contact at all) and I didn't even know him! The months at times were endless but I knew that I had made him a promise to honor his collar. Slaves should always have as much, if not more, honor than the men who rule Gor. I begged his collar with a promise to honor him. It was perhaps the hardest thing I had ever done.

If you are a Free and are reading this, please take the time, I beg of you, to tell your slaves that you appreciate them, that you care about them. They work their bottoms off to make you look good and each thing they do is for your name and your glory. Don't be silent, please and often, let them know. Another thing that I want you to realize is that the simplest things mean the most. I know Sandtiger probably has no idea how much this simple "everyday" conversation meant to me or how often I refer back to it when I need to feel him near me.

Sandtiger
*holding you...pulling U/us back into the chair and pulling you to My lap....content in holding you there....kissing your forehead as I take in the aroma of your fiery mane of hair all disheveled and disarray*....you have fullfilled Me My precious....completed what needed to be complete....and I am now completely content and satisfied....you are more precious and dear to Me than anything I may own or will own....you are truly Mine...

raine
~a slow tear slips from my eye as i look into Yours~...i am completely and irrevocably Yours for always...for as long as you will have me....You have become my life and my treasure and there is nothing i could ever say that would equal the joy in my heart...in my soul when i hear the words words just spoken from your lips~ ....i simply adore you...

Sandtiger
and you are My treasure, the most prized of all that I own....you fill My each and everyday with simple joys of each message you leave Me....the simple things that W/we all seem to neglect you remember and in this small wonderous thing you do, I notice and cherish....though you think I may ignore you when I am silent, I dont...when you think I forget the date of your kolaring, I dont...you are indeed the best thing that has happened to Me since I have been online...you are that which is most dear to Me....in My heart is where I keep you and will keep you..

raine
~buries my head in Your shoulder as tears run down my face rt and i dont know what to say~...i never thought you noticed ....

Sandtiger
Indeed I notice....I notice the small things that you do...everything that you say and do....

raine
~slides my legs around your waist and my arms around your neck and holds you so tightly at a loss for words .........

Sandtiger
Though I forget to tell you how important you are to Me, O/others know....and T/they hear it from Me and know that you are all I need....

Special thanks to Sandtiger for continued use of this conversation.