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| 26 | 142 | View more quotes about later">Later, appropriately collared, nicely become slave, a fate perfect for her, and one richly deserved, she became mine. |
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| 26 | 139 | As a free woman she had been placed with me in a containment capsule on the Prison Moon, in such a proximity and under such circumstances that no man might indefinitely resist the toils of nature in which men and women, helpless captives, had been enmeshed even before small hominids had grown wicked enough and bold enough to challenge larger beasts for defensible lairs. |
| 26 | 140 | As a free woman she could not be touched, given the codes, but it was as though steaming, juicy, roasted meat had been put before a starving larl, one forbidden to so much as touch his tongue to its heat, to its temptation. |
| 26 | 141 | But Kurii had intervened. |
| 26 | 142 | Later, appropriately collared, nicely become slave, a fate perfect for her, and one richly deserved, she became mine. |
| 26 | 143 | No longer did scruples and codes, of whatever world, divide us. |
| 26 | 144 | She was then slave, mine, as much as a cup, a belt, a sandal. |
| 26 | 145 | I wondered sometimes if the Priest-Kings, who think in terms of generations, and even millennia, had selected us for one another, or had bred us for one another. |