"I've thought about it," Ψiioniic said, as levelly as he could manage. "But it'th my choice to make, in the end. Isn't it?" It HAD to be, because otherwise he'd just traded one sort of owner for another, and he knew that Signless would never do that to him. Protectiveness might make him want to shelter Ψiioniic 'for his own good', but in the end Ψ was confident that Signless would allow him to stand on his own two feet.

"I'll try to make sure you don't have to rethcue me from her too often, though," he said, trying to sound like he was teasing instead of being serious.