[Final orders? He remembers Master's final order, screamed in the dead of night. He remembers the strange men swathed all in black, the dark blades shining with a film of something. He remembers the first getting caught in his fabric instead of hitting its mark--the very reason Master had liked for him to lay on him while he slept. He remembers the struggle, the chaos, the fear--he remembers slamming men into the wall with all the strength he had, and even knocking one out the window. He remembers the guards coming, far too late.]
His last order was to protect him.
[And after that? There had been other masters, of course, but none of them had been Master. It had never been..... official, so to speak, woven into the very fabric of his being like his loyalty to his creator had been. He had never been truly bequeathed. And so..... he had been forced to find his own way. He had been forced to learn and grow and evolve, bit by bit, year by year, person by person. Slowly, he had become the individual he was now.
And now? Now, he doesn't even have a lower-case master anymore, not since his last master. Not since the Cave of Wonders had been created. His last master hadn't even given him an order--there had been no time to, not while he was dying. Not while Genie was the only one who could do anything--not even to save him, but simply to grant his final wish. But in the end..... he and Genie had still respected that final wish, even if it hadn't been an order, hadn't they? He's with good, worthy people who deserve his company, and Genie is finally free, even if it wasn't by that master's hands.]
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His last order was to protect him.
[And after that? There had been other masters, of course, but none of them had been Master. It had never been..... official, so to speak, woven into the very fabric of his being like his loyalty to his creator had been. He had never been truly bequeathed. And so..... he had been forced to find his own way. He had been forced to learn and grow and evolve, bit by bit, year by year, person by person. Slowly, he had become the individual he was now.
And now? Now, he doesn't even have a lower-case master anymore, not since his last master. Not since the Cave of Wonders had been created. His last master hadn't even given him an order--there had been no time to, not while he was dying. Not while Genie was the only one who could do anything--not even to save him, but simply to grant his final wish. But in the end..... he and Genie had still respected that final wish, even if it hadn't been an order, hadn't they? He's with good, worthy people who deserve his company, and Genie is finally free, even if it wasn't by that master's hands.]