A/N: This time it's #049 - learning from the 100 Prompts Challenge.


water and souls
7. learning

He was a blank slate at first,

a robot
programmed
through the motions
without a choice

but now he's better equipped.
He makes his own choices,
good and poor
and still
pulled along
by a chain.

That doesn't change.
He's still a slave
after all
and yet
he's a different
sort of slave
right now.

A slave to a god that
tells him to smile
is better.