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You would say "pet", I would say "loved and valued servant", although still absolutely a slave and not a person, just a valuable thing. Stuff like this almost feels made for her, I do enjoy a relationship like that where there's still love and softness just filtered through the brutality and dehumanization of slavery. She could always be slapped and punished for speaking without being spoken to, but instead when she's speaking too much for Master's liking she just gets the hood zipped up. That's it, lights out. Could still be disciplined in the morning, but for now you're just a human body pillow. Well, "human" body pillow, don't ever let that go to a slaves head. 
>it's the highest privilege she could hope for.
They are like that, hm? Something about the darkness, being alone with their own thoughts, knowing that the floor is what they deserve, they should only ever be on human sheets if they have something to give. 
Makes sense why it's one of the best rewards to give them for enduring something particularly hard under Master's orders.