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I did not know the import of his absence, the nature of his voyage. I had heard several conjectures, which convinced me that no one knew anything more about it, really, than I did. Also, I did not wish to pry into the matter. Already, due to some earlier inquiries I had made, mostly having to do with other matters, I feared I might be taken as a spy. Certainly I would not be the first slave to be inserted into a household for the purposes of obtaining information. Too, I was under no delusion as to what might and might not be becoming to a kajira. One conjecture was that Bosk of Port Kar was off to Brundisium, on a trading venture, dealing with amber; another was that he had gone to Torvaldsland, to the north, to buy furs; other conjectures had him inspecting the arsenal reserve in the great northern forests, establishing a trading station at Skjern, even mapping the coastline and taking soundings south of Kassau. - (Quarry of Gor)