. please .. release me.. I can’t take this any longer.. Master?"The Arab could see the desperation as well as the humiliation in her eyes as well as...hear it in her soft voice. " You address me as Master. Do you understand what that means?" Yes, I understand. Please.. untied me.. I can’t breath...my legs are so .." Tell me what it means, Cathy."Cathy choked as she fought to get the words out. Horrible as they were to her, she had to accept them. " Yes.. Master. It means you own me. You can do. Old people move slower and are easier targets. When politicians reach that mandatory retirement of sixty-five, put them in National Service for two years. Better yet, sign them up to be foot soldiers. Put the expendables on the front line.My ‘old man’ had nothing to offer this world. He wasn’t even that good a lover. I’m through with him. I don’t care if I don’t remember anything from that past life again. It’s youth that has the potential to change the world for the better, not age. That old. “Let’s go, Talshish. Your people’s turn,” Morgana ordered.“Yes, Mage Morgana,” Talshish responded, moving with the Fae to lead the way downwards.We entered what had to be a communal dining hall with pretty much the same ugly mind-disturbing décor.“Surprised they could eat,” I said with a shudder.“They do seem to have twisted the Fae concepts of beauty into the grotesque,” Talshish agreed. “In the past it was only our hearts and deeds that were ugly, not our surroundings.”A quick search and scan. It is another loophole for robots due to human inaction, and the peculiarly human blind spot that you can somehow choose to offend anybody and still maintain that you actually stand for something.In Toni's case, her Husband and Wife had been out actively searching for a third robot partner. In Toni they found a 'bot who might best be described as a grownup Malin with different hair — and a regular fembot's price tag. This was more clever design and marketing, since so many children had once had.