"Well, I crashed on this planet about five years ago," began Robert. "The natives caught me, and charged me with trespassing on sacred ground, and I was promptly put on the slave block. Ended up getting chosen by a landowner and working the fields for a while, until he learned that I had a knack for numbers and gave me over to his brother, who worked hear at the villa. I served out the rest of my three year sentence as an assistant to a bureaucrat, and when I was freed got a pretty easy job doing the same thing I had assisted in. Then about a year ago Caroline happened upon the planet the same way I did, and got caught by the histarans. I saw her up on the stand, and decided to cut her a break and claim her as my slave. We started off as master and servant, then became friends, and now, well, we can't officially get married until she's declared free, but there's no law says we can't have kids before then. As for why I've stuck around, well, by now the authorities back home have declared me legally dead, and even if they hadn't, I don't have a ship, not to mention the fact that I've got a way better job hear than I did back home, and, well, not really a whole lot of reason to leave," he admitted.
