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Verna

Book 7. (240 results) Captive of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	1059	Let Verna kneel to men, and fear the whip! "Poor Verna," said Ute.	10
12	329	How I would have beaten Verna! I was not afraid of her! I would have beaten her well, as she deserved! How I hated Verna! Her cart was now moving away, drawn by the small, horned tharlarion.	10
15	976	I recalled the circle of the dance in the northern forest, and how even Verna, the proud Verna, had, beside herself with need, writhed helplessly beneath the bright moons of Gor, a female.	10
8	1119	"Yes, Verna," said one of the other girls.	10
8	1128	The tall girl, the blond girl, their leader, called Verna, lithe in the skins of forest panthers, in her golden ornaments, with her spear, strode to where Lana lay on the grass, on her side, bound and gagged.	10
8	1129	With her spear, Verna rolled Lana onto her back.	10
8	1131	Verna's spear was at her throat.	10
8	1132	"You danced well," said Verna.	10
8	1134	Verna looked at her with contempt, and then drew aside the spear.	10
8	1139	"Tie the men in sitting positions about the fire," ordered Verna.	10
8	1143	Verna approached me.	10
8	1150	Verna turned about, to regard Lana and Ute.	10
8	1155	Again I felt the point of Verna's spear under my chin, forcing up my head.	10
8	1166	"Strip her," said Verna to one of her girls.	10
8	1169	"Burn the camisk and binding fiber," said Verna.	10
8	1172	"Put more wood on the fire," commanded Verna.	10
8	1174	Then Verna turned away from me, and strode before the men.	10
8	1177	"I am Verna," she told them, "a panther girl, of the High Forests.	10
8	1186	"Men!" laughed Verna, contemptuously, and turned away from them.	10
8	1189	Then Verna was standing before me.	10
9	9	The tall, blond girl, Verna, beautiful and superb, led the file, her bow and a quiver of arrows now on her back, her spear in hand.	10
9	13	Then, after perhaps an hour of this torture, Verna lifted her hand, and the girls stopped.	10
9	20	Gagged, I shook my head, No! "Cut switches and beat her," said Verna.	10
9	32	"Untie her ankles," said Verna.	10
9	36	When I lifted it, Verna stood before me, her knife at my face.	10
9	38	I looked at Verna in terror.	10
9	39	"Are you afraid you will not be so pretty?" asked Verna.	10
9	49	I had been gagged as one might have gagged a mere slave! Verna's knife was again in its sheath.	10
9	51	"Your masters fed you," said Verna.	10
9	56	"Men must find you very pleasing," said Verna.	10
9	58	"You wear a man's brand," said Verna.	10
9	62	"Fortunate slave," said Verna.	10
9	65	"It is said," said Verna, "that Ka-la-na wine makes any woman a slave, if but for an hour".	10
9	78	"We know the movements of the body of a slave girl," said another, "and your body betrays you! You are a slave!" "You want to belong to a man!" cried Verna.	10
9	82	"You struggled prettily," said Verna.	10
9	85	"We do not accept slave girls among the women of the forest," said Verna proudly.	10
9	87	Verna regarded me.	10
9	90	"My band," said Verna, "consists of fifteen.	10
9	97	"Yes!" "Untie her," said Verna.	10
9	100	"Stand," said Verna.	10
9	105	Verna removed her sleen knife from her belt.	10
9	110	"The place of which of these," asked Verna, "will you take?" "I do not understand," I said.	10
9	111	"One of these," said Verna, "or myself, you will fight to the death".	10
9	113	"I will fight you, if you wish," said Verna, "without my knife".	10
9	119	"Whose place will you take?" asked Verna.	10
9	123	"Bind her," said Verna.	10
9	127	"We have rested," said Verna.	10
9	135	Verna regarded me.	10
9	140	Verna approached me.	10
9	149	"Why," I asked, "was I taken?" Verna looked at me, for a long time.	10
9	153	The girls, led by Verna, again began to make their way through the dark, moonlit forest.	10
9	156	Once Verna lifted her hand, and we stopped.	10
9	158	"Sleen," said Verna.	10
9	167	She looked at Verna.	10
9	168	Verna nodded.	10
9	174	"Verna," said one of them.	10
9	175	"Quiet," said Verna.	10
9	178	"Be silent," said Verna.	10
9	180	"No," said Verna.	10
9	182	"We must go to the circle!" Verna stopped and turned.	10
9	184	"Please, Verna," said another, her voice pleading.	10
9	185	Verna regarded the girls.	10
9	188	Irritably, Verna turned, and again we continued on our way.	10
9	200	They were swift, and beautiful and arrogant, like Verna.	10
9	216	Verna had told me that there was a man.	10
9	241	"Verna," said one of them.	10
9	245	"All right," said Verna, "go to the circle".	10
9	247	"Me, Verna!" cried another.	10
9	248	"To the circle," said Verna, irritably.	10
9	250	One by one, with her eyes, Verna released the girls, and each ran lightly, eagerly, through the trees.	10
9	251	Then Verna came to me and took my leash from the hand of the girl who had held it.	10
9	254	Verna looked after them.	10
9	256	Verna regarded me, for some time, in the moonlight.	10
9	259	"Yes," said Verna.	10
9	267	Then, to my amazement, Verna unsnapped the choke leash from my throat and then unbound my wrists.	10
9	274	Verna laughed, and stood behind me.	10
9	277	"Posture!" snapped Verna, from yards behind me.	10
9	284	The girls of Verna's band stood about the edge of the circle.	10
9	298	"Kneel," snapped Verna.	10
9	300	Verna resnapped the leather and metal choke collar on my throat.	10
9	306	Verna took the length of binding fiber from her skin, that which had formerly bound my wrists.	10
9	311	"Docile slave," sneered Verna.	10
9	312	"Verna!" spoke one of the girls.	10
9	313	"Very well!" said Verna, irritably.	10
9	322	Then there were none who had not entered that savage circle, save Verna, the band's leader, proud and superb, armed and disdainful, and Elinor Brinton, a bound slave.	10
9	332	Then another and another! I did not even look upon Verna, so horrified I was at the barbaric spectacle.	10
9	337	Then suddenly, to my amazement, Verna cried out in anguish, a wild, moaning, anguished cry, and threw from herself her weapons and tore away her own skins and leaped into the circle, turning, and clawing and crying out like the others.	10
9	367	Then, Verna at their lead, they approached me.	10
9	370	My head leaped to the side, stinging, as Verna, with all her might, slapped me.	10
9	379	"No," said Verna.	10
9	380	Verna looked about at the other girls.	10
9	382	"Bring the slave," said Verna.	10
9	384	Verna strode from the area wherein was found the circle of the dance.	10
9	391	She said nothing, but turned angrily away, and led me from the post, following Verna and her band.	10
9	392	* * * * Verna suddenly lifted her hand.	10
9	396	I wondered if it were the same animal which Verna, and one of the other girls, had detected earlier.	10
9	404	"Yes," said Verna.	10
9	409	Then, after this time, Verna said, "It is gone".	10
9	419	"Kneel," said Verna.	10
9	426	Verna removed the bag from its hook and knelt down on the ground, the other girls around her.	10
9	431	Verna gave six points to each of her girls.	10
9	435	Could it be that this, and this alone, was my price, that I had been purchased for only this, the points for one hundred arrows? But I reminded myself that I could not be purchased, for I was Elinor Brinton, for I was free! "Rise, Slave," said Verna.	10
9	440	"All right," said Verna.	10
9	442	"No! Please!" "Kill her," said Verna.	10
9	449	"Please! Please! Please! Please!" "What are you?" asked Verna.	10
9	451	"A slave!" "Do you beg for your life?" asked Verna.	10
9	453	"Yes, yes!" "Who begs for her life?" asked Verna.	10
9	455	"Is it only slaves who so beg for their lives?" asked Verna.	10
9	457	"Yes!" "Is it only slaves who so beg and grovel?" asked Verna.	10
9	459	"Yes!" "Then you are a slave," said Verna.	10
9	461	"You then acknowledge yourself a slave?" Verna inquired.	10
9	463	"Yes! I acknowledge myself a slave! I am a slave! I am a slave!" "And only a slave," inquired Verna, "and nothing other than a slave?" "I am only a slave," I cried, "and nothing other than a slave!" "Naught else?" she asked.	10
9	465	"Naught else! Naught else, Mistress!" "Spare the slave," said Verna.	10
9	479	My eyes met those of Verna.	10
9	496	"Through that door," said Verna, gesturing with her head, "is your master".	10
9	504	"It is all that you are worth to him," said Verna.	10
9	508	"I myself," said Verna, "would not have paid as much".	10
9	514	"Be silent," said Verna.	10
9	528	I felt the point of Verna's spear in my back.	10
9	529	"Enter, Slave Girl," said Verna.	10
9	531	I felt the point of Verna's spear again against my back.	10
10	322	Accordingly we used panther girls, Verna and her band, to acquire you".	10
11	927	"Yes," said the guard, "Verna, an outlaw girl".	10
11	934	"It was Verna and her band who captured me," I said.	10
11	947	I was not displeased that Marlenus was hunting Verna, and her girls.	10
11	1049	"Verna, the outlaw girl!" we heard the cry.	10
11	1050	"She has been taken by Marlenus of Ar!" "Marlenus has captured Verna, the outlaw girl!" I rushed to the bars of the cage, thrilled.	10
11	1052	How I hated that proud woman, and her band! Let them be slaves! Let them be slaves! "Poor Verna," said Ute.	10
11	1064	But I hoped she would be put in slave rouge, and silk, and bells! Let her know slavery! How I hated the proud Verna! How pleased I was that she, as I, had fallen prey to men! I looked about the cage, flushed, furious.	10
11	1070	"Let Verna be a slave!" I screamed down the long hall between the cages.	10
11	1265	Even though a token collar might be locked on my throat, it would be I who would be master! Sometimes, at night, lying in the straw of the cage, I would think of Verna, and when I did so, knowing her captured, destined for brand and collar, I would laugh to myself.	10
11	1391	The thought of Verna, the outlaw girl, passed through my mind.	10
11	1397	I recalled Verna, and the panther girls, dancing in the circle.	10
11	1398	I recalled them, when they could no longer restrain themselves, throwing themselves to the grass, writhing in their helpless need, even the proud, arrogant Verna! They were all weak.	10
12	263	I recognized her as one of the girls of Verna's band.	10
12	292	There had been fifteen girls, five on the carts, and two of the tethered groups! All of Verna's band had fallen captive! There now came a great shout, and I squeezed even further forward in the wagon, to peep out.	10
12	296	It was Verna.	10
12	297	Beautiful, barbaric Verna! Nothing, save her weapons, had been taken from her.	10
12	313	I saw that the domed top of Verna's cage was set with a ring, so that the cage might be, if one wished, hung from the branch of a tree, or suspended from some supporting structure, for public viewing.	10
12	318	Their abuse was endured by Verna.	10
12	321	Verna now flinched with pain, and her body was cut and marked, but still she would not lower her head, nor did she deign to speak to, or recognize in any way, her foes.	10
12	330	In her cage, manacled, Verna still stood proudly.	10
12	370	I recollected with satisfaction my witnessing of the captivity of Verna, the panther girl, but I recollected with much less satisfaction what had occurred in the slave wagon, when Inge had so decisively bested me; when I had learned that she could beat me, if she pleased, and would, should it please...	10
12	433	Moreover, I had had an opportunity to be revenged on Verna, before whom I had demonstrated my superiority and lack of fear.	10
12	475	Verna's girls, the fifteen of them, stripped, were housed, crouching and kneeling, in small, metal slave cages.	10
12	483	We stopped before Verna's cage.	10
12	487	"Greetings, Verna," said I, boldly.	10
12	506	Still Verna made no move.	10
12	508	Verna could not watch both myself and Lana.	10
12	513	Verna still watched us, not moving.	10
12	519	Lana and I, laughing, spun the cage back and forth, and, when I could, I struck Verna through the bars.	10
12	524	Verna had her eyes closed.	10
12	534	I gave Verna another blow with the stick.	10
12	538	"Hurry," said Lana, "or we will be beaten!" I gave Verna one last blow, a stinging stripe across the shoulder, with the stick.	10
14	96	I had even been given a swallow of Ka-la-na wine, which exquisite beverage I had not tasted since the time of my capture, long ago, by Verna outside of Targo's compound.	10
14	573	I remembered the weakness of Verna, and of her girls, and of Inge and Rena, and Ute! They were weak.	10
15	309	"Lift your head, Slave," said Verna.	10
15	311	"Who is she?" asked Verna.	10
15	314	Verna smiled down at me.	10
15	317	Verna wore no collar.	10
15	323	"We met," said Verna, "first outside the compound of Targo the Slaver, north of Laura.	10
15	329	"You know me, do you not, Girl?" asked Verna again.	10
15	330	I shook my head, no, no! "Your slave is a liar," said Verna.	10
15	332	"No," said Verna.	10
15	340	"I know little of such work," said Verna, "but are you not in danger of scorching the garment which you are ironing?" I hastily drew away the iron, placing it on the fire-heated plate.	10
15	342	"Permit me, Verna," said Rask of Treve, "to show you the rest of the camp".	10
15	343	Verna looked down upon me.	10
15	346	Then, together, Verna and Rask of Treve left me.	10
15	356	"That is Verna," said Ena, "a panther girl from the northern forests".	10
15	363	I recognized them, both from the streets of Ko-ro-ba and from the merchants' stockade, on the trade route to Ar, where I and Lana had so abused Verna, she then being helplessly caged.	10
15	371	"They freed Verna," I said.	10
15	372	"Freeing her, they escaped to a preappointed rendezvous, where Rask of Treve, with his men, met them, and brought them, and Verna, here".	10
15	374	"Verna is well known on Gor, as an outlaw woman," said Ena.	10
15	388	Then I remembered that he had contempt for women, and that I hated him! "What of the other girls, those of Verna's band?" I asked.	10
15	424	Verna had her own tent in the camp of Rask of Treve, though often, when he was in the camp, she dined with him.	10
15	426	It was not infrequently that Verna requested that it be I who would tend her tent, and prepare her food, and serve her.	10
15	432	Then, one night, on a feast night, for Rask had returned with new fair prisoners, Verna feasted in his own tent, and I, to my amazement, was ordered to serve them.	10
15	436	Sometimes Verna would say, "Drink," and I would pour wine into her goblet, saying, "Yes, Mistress," and sometimes Rask of Treve would command me, saying "Drink," and I would then, similarly, serve him, saying "Yes, Master".	10
15	437	Verna sat cross-legged, like a man.	10
15	456	"Excellent," said Verna.	10
15	464	"I have a surprise for you," Rask was telling Verna.	10
15	473	"What is the surprise?" asked Verna.	10
15	481	She referred to Verna.	10
15	490	Verna and I watched.	10
15	497	"She is not bad," said Verna.	10
15	499	"No," said Verna.	10
15	501	Verna looked at him, dumbfounded, and then she laughed a great laugh, and slapped her knee.	10
15	504	"Splendid!" cried Verna.	10
15	506	"Give her to me!" cried Verna.	10
15	508	"I am the enemy of Marlenus of Ar!" cried Verna.	10
15	511	"I will well teach her the meaning of slavery in the northern forests!" cried Verna.	10
15	521	"How is she?" asked Verna, who had now again resumed her place, seating herself cross-legged by Rask of Treve's side.	10
15	524	"Where did you get her?" asked Verna.	10
15	526	"What did she cost you?" asked Verna.	10
15	528	Verna laughed.	10
15	531	"It is marvelous!" cried Verna.	10
15	537	"Do not forget your garment, Girl," said Verna.	10
15	539	Rask of Treve, and Verna, laughed.	10
15	546	"Why do you not give Talena to me?" asked Verna, of Rask of Treve.	10
15	885	Once, two weeks after my release from the slave box, Rask of Treve passed near me, in the company of Verna, the panther girl.	10
15	896	Verna could not have done these things.	10
15	1178	At his side, cross-legged, sat Verna, the panther girl, who was served by we girls as might have been a warrior.	10
15	1190	"Wine!" called Verna.	10
15	1196	"She is pretty," said Verna.	10
15	1252	"Dance for your masters, Slave," I heard Verna call out.	10
16	1	I am Chained Beneath the Moons of Gor "Let her be chained under the moons of Gor," had said Verna.	10
16	36	Why had I been put here? "Let her be chained under the moons of Gor," had said Verna, and Rask of Treve, laughing, had had it done.	10
16	47	This evening Rask of Treve had supped with Verna, and I it was who had served them, only as before, their menial slave.	10
16	61	"Wine," had said Verna.	10
16	64	I hated Talena! I wanted to throw myself upon her and scratch out her eyes, and tear her hair and bite and kick her until she screamed and screamed, and fled away! The daughter of a Ubar! She was only a slave! I was as good as she! I hated her! I hated her! I hated her! "Your slave seems disturbed,"...	10
16	66	"Slave," said Verna.	10
16	70	I looked at Verna.	10
16	79	"I cannot help the way I am," I told Verna, looking down, deferentially.	10
16	81	"Let her be chained under the moons of Gor," had said Verna.	10
16	155	And as I gasped, and wept, I saw, suddenly, in the shadows, watching me, Verna, the panther girl.	10
16	156	"It seems your body moves as might that of a Kajira," said Verna.	10
16	158	"You are not as other women," said Verna.	10
16	161	I knelt before Verna.	10
16	171	"Now you speak truly, El-in-or," said Verna.	10
16	173	"Sometimes," said Verna, "it requires a man such as Rask of Treve to teach a woman this weakness".	10
16	175	"I have fought this weakness in myself," said Verna.	10
16	178	"Rask of Treve," said Verna, smiling, "has given you no choice".	10
16	183	"You have been conquered," said Verna.	10
16	185	"I am leaving the camp tonight," said Verna.	10
16	192	"I am taking Talena with me," said Verna.	10
16	200	Too, I gathered that she had been given to Verna, and, of course, only animals, slaves and such, can be so given.	10
16	209	But doubtless even a greater blow was to have been given away by Rask of Treve, and to a woman! I did not doubt but what Verna appreciated the ironies of this situation.	10
16	215	"No," said Verna.	10
16	221	"Ah," said Verna.	10
16	232	Verna turned away, and then she turned to face me again.	10
16	235	"Should I see Rask of Treve," said Verna, "I will tell him that there is a chained girl who, beneath the moons of Gor, begs him for his touch".	10
16	237	"I wish you well!" Verna did not turn again, but went to the kneeling girl and unsnapped the crossed ankle rings, and put them in her pouch.	10
16	241	Was that because Verna was a woman, I wondered.	10
16	245	Then Verna, with the light chain leash, lashed her suddenly, sharply, across the lovely, rounded backs of her calves.	10
16	251	Verna then, insolently, snapped the leash.	10
16	296	And I watched the proud Verna lead her humbled, chastened slave away, into the darkness, the gag straps tight over the back of her hair as she followed perfectly, beautifully, unquestioningly, frightened, on her leash.	10
16	297	I had little doubt but what the magnificent Verna, leader of the panther girls, would bring her comely prize, apparently only another common slave, in a work tunic, successfully to the northern forests.	10
18	20	I have heard, too, that the girls of Verna, chief of the panther girls, were freed in Ar, surreptitiously, and are believed to have escaped northward.	10
18	21	In this I think I see the hand of Rask of Treve, or perhaps even of Verna, a most unusual woman, herself.	10
18	24	Marlenus of Ar prepares an expedition to enter the forests, to recapture Verna and punish her for her insolence.	10

Book 8. (260 results) Hunters of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	445	"I am not one of your girls! I am Verna! Verna, the outlaw woman! Verna, the panther girl!" "She is pretty, isn't she?" asked Hura.	10
6	136	"Suppose," said I, "that the girl released, she who is captured by Verna's band, is well known to Verna.	10
6	182	"What if there is an objection," inquired Rim, "raised on the part of Verna, and her panther girls?" "We have more than enough slave chains for Verna and her entire band," I said.	10
10	125	Talena, by the permissions of Verna, and by way of Mira, Verna's messenger, with whom I dealt, sued for her purchase, such not being the act of a free woman".	10
10	237	"Verna!" Verna did not speak to her.	10
15	439	Then there came six panther girls, who had been of Verna's band, in their skins, and then, still in lipstick and earrings, still in her bit of slave silk, came Verna, and then, following her, came the other eight girls who had been of her band.	10
22	235	The skins of the woman who had protested "Verna!" were now worn by Verna herself.	10
1	111	"She was taken to the northern forests, I have learned," I said, "by the outlaw girl, Verna, to serve as bait for her capture of Marlenus of Ar, who is presumed to be concerned for her rescue".	10
1	113	"Marlenus, on a hunting expedition, with other animals, captured Verna, and her girls.	10
1	257	"Verna," said he.	10
2	202	"He hunts Verna," said Arn.	10
2	204	"He had once captured Verna," continued Arn, "but she had escaped".	10
2	207	"Further," said one of his men, "it is said that Verna now holds his daughter slave".	10
2	252	It was a portion of my plan to attempt to obtain information on the whereabouts of Verna's band.	10
2	382	"I had expected to be met by Verna, the Outlaw Girl," said I, "at this point.	10
2	383	Is it not true that she sells from this point?" "I am the enemy of Verna," said Sheera.	10
2	387	"Verna is not selling today.	10
2	389	How much am I bid?" "I had hoped to meet Verna," I said.	10
2	390	"Verna, I have heard," volunteered Rim, "sells by far the best merchandise".	10
2	392	I recalled that it had been by Verna and her band that Rim had been sold.	10
2	395	"Sometimes chain luck is with Verna, sometimes it is not".	10
2	422	"You mentioned," said I to Sheera, "that you are an enemy of Verna?" "I am her enemy," said Sheera.	10
2	426	"I have heard," I said, "that Verna and her band sometimes roam north of Laura".	10
2	429	The information about Verna's band I had had from a girl who had been recently slave in my house, a wench named Elinor.	10
2	432	It was, of course, one thing to know this general manner of thing, and another to find Verna's band's camp, or their dancing circle.	10
2	436	Rim had been captured by Verna and her band, but he had been chained, raped and enslaved not far from the very exchange point where he was sold, this very point.	10
2	437	He knew less than I of the normal habits of Verna and her band.	10
2	439	"Verna's camp," I said to Sheera, matter-of-factly, "is not only north of Laura, but to its west".	10
2	443	Verna's camp, then, lay to the north and east of Laura.	10
2	587	"The name of the outlaw girl," I said, "is Verna".	10
2	619	"The camp of Verna," she said, "and her dancing circle, lies one hundred pasangs north of Lydius, and twenty pasangs inland from the shore of Thassa".	10
2	632	"The camp of Verna," she said, "lies ten pasangs upriver from Lydius, and fifty pasangs north, inland from the Laurius".	10
2	646	"I wish to learn," I said, "the location of the camp and dancing circle of the outlaw girl, Verna".	10
2	734	"The camp, and dancing circle, of Verna," said the first girl, Tana, "lies north and east of Laura.	10
2	746	You will then be in the vicinity of Verna's dancing circle.	10
3	21	He sought Verna, for vengeance, because his honor had been challenged.	10
3	22	I sought Talena, who had once been my free companion, now said to be slave of the outlaw girl, Verna.	10
3	126	I wished to reach Verna before Marlenus of Ar.	10
5	301	"Is it true, Girl," I asked, "that you are the enemy of Verna, the panther girl?" "Yes," she said, sullenly.	10
6	89	On the map, as nearly as we could, we traced, with various straight lines, what we would take to be the path to Verna's camp and dancing circle.	10
6	93	"Further," I said, "it is my understanding that Verna expects Marlenus of Ar to pursue her.	10
6	109	"On the other hand," said Rim, "Verna does not know of us.	10
6	118	"Then, selected men will enter the forest, but as though they did not know the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle.	10
6	128	That will be an incentive to the girl we release to see that she swiftly falls to Verna's band".	10
6	129	"Yes," said Rim, "and if she fails to find Verna's band, she, braceleted, will be forced to return to us".	10
6	131	"But I expect," I said, "that she will have little difficulty in falling in with Verna's band".	10
6	134	"But," said Thurnock, troubled, "have you considered that they, the panther women of Verna's band, might keep the girl we have released?" "I have considered that," I said.	10
6	137	Suppose that that girl were a rival of Verna, a personal enemy, one of long standing".	10
6	139	"What then," asked I, of Thurnock, "do you suppose Verna, and her band, would do with her?" "I see," said Thurnock, grinning.	10
6	141	"And," said I, smiling, "we would have made contact with Verna's band, and we would get our girl back".	10
6	151	"Verna has taken Talena to the forests, to bait a trap for Marlenus.	10
6	155	"Suppose Marlenus falls to Verna," I suggested.	10
6	157	"Marlenus? Fall to Verna?" asked Thurnock.	10
6	161	"But," said I, "the important thing to Verna's plan is that Marlenus believe that she holds Talena.	10
6	179	"If the price is high enough," I suggested, "Verna may not much care whether we are of Tabor or not".	10
6	204	Should Marlenus fall to Verna and her band, Tyros might be much interested in his acquisition".	10
6	236	"I am the enemy of Verna.	10
6	239	"If you captured Verna, branded and collared, what would you do with her?" She looked at me, angrily.	10
6	252	I did not expect it would take long for Verna's girls to pick her up.	10
6	264	On the map, later, in the stern castle, we had traced out, with greater accuracy than had hitherto been possible, following the directions of Tana and Ela, what should be the location of Verna's camp and dancing circle.	10
6	352	It was quite possibly the same camp he had used several months ago, when, as recreation from the duties of the Ubar, he had gone hunting in the northern forests, a sporting trip in which he had captured a large number of animals, and, as well, Verna, a famed outlaw woman, and her entire band.	10
6	354	Verna, I was certain, would not be so easily taken a second time.	10
6	374	It was in her best interest, braceleted, to fall swiftly into the hands of Verna's band.	10
6	454	"She was a great rival to Verna.	10
6	455	Verna now takes pleasure in returning her to you".	10
6	477	"So you are Verna?" I asked the girl.	10
6	481	"You seek Verna?" she asked.	10
6	484	"I had understood that this was the territory ranged by Verna and her band".	10
6	485	"I am of the band of Verna," said the girl.	10
6	491	For some reason I found myself not displeased that this woman was not Verna.	10
6	494	"Do you come from Verna?" I asked.	10
6	500	Then she mused, "Verna told us that Marlenus of Ar would not approach us as you have done, and that he would not use a merchant to do his business for him".	10
6	510	"I am interested in obtaining," I said, "a woman, who is rumored to be a prisoner in Verna's camp".	10
6	544	"And, Merchant," said she, "do not seek hereafter to mix in the affairs of Verna and Marlenus".	10
6	549	"Did you see Verna?" I asked her.	10
6	557	"Did Verna give you any message for me?" I asked.	10
6	572	I had given Verna, and her band, her chance.	10
6	587	As far as those in Laura knew, or those in the forests, with the exception of the panther girls of Verna's band, we were what we seemed, traders in fur and hide.	10
6	743	"We know the approximate location of Verna's camp and dancing circle.	10
6	922	By the women of Verna I was much abused.	10
7	22	We would not approach Verna's camp and dancing circle by means of the blazed trail.	10
7	23	I did not know if Talena lay slave in Verna's camp or not.	10
7	24	If she did not, Verna, and her band, would surely know her whereabouts.	10
7	27	I had given Verna and her band their chance.	10
7	73	I hoped to be able to scout Verna's camp before nightfall, so that we might arrange our attack, with nets, for dawn.	10
7	110	I hoped, by nightfall, to have scouted Verna's camp.	10
7	113	It did not displease me that I should bring his daughter to safety from the forests before him, or that I should have Verna, and her band, prisoner, well trussed in tight binding fiber, waiting for my iron, while he still, unknowingly, sought them where they were not.	10
7	228	"Where is the camp and dancing circle of Verna, the panther girl?" I asked.	10
7	233	This portion of the forest was supposedly the territory of Verna, and her band.	10
7	236	"Are you not of Verna's band?" I asked.	10
7	240	"This portion of the forest," I told her, "is the territory of Verna and her band".	10
7	263	It now seemed to me even more important to locate, as swiftly as possible, Verna's camp or its dancing circle.	10
7	269	I wished to find Verna's camp, if possible, before nightfall.	10
7	337	Not all of Verna's band was now within the enclosure.	10
7	347	When Hura's band arrived, ready to fight for these pasangs of forest, ready to drive Verna's band out, they would meet no opposition.	10
7	348	By that time Verna and her band would be my captives.	10
7	372	I expected, by nightfall, all, or most, of Verna's band would have returned to their small stockade.	10
7	380	"I would prefer," said Rim, "to join in the attack on Verna's encampment.	10
7	402	We will then march on the camp of Verna".	10
8	1	We Wait in the Camp of Verna There is a Gorean saying that free women, raised gently in the high cylinders, in their robes of concealment, unarmed, untrained in weapons, may, by the slaver, be plucked like flowers.	10
8	5	The fact that we numbered ten, including myself, and that the girls of Verna's band numbered some fifteen, and that they were skilled with their weapons, and dangerous, dictated the nature of our approach.	10
8	16	Too, Verna's band, earlier in the forest, had irritated me.	10
8	131	Besides, what if Verna and her band returned tonight, and then, again, departed before dawn tomorrow? "I have a better suggestion," said Arn.	10
9	74	I had little doubt but what this was Verna who now examined me.	10
9	85	Verna sat down beside me, cross-legged.	10
9	106	"She would be an excellent match, would she not?" asked Verna.	10
9	109	Verna laughed.	10
9	112	"We have taught her slavery," said Verna.	10
9	115	"You would find her, I think," said Verna, "rather changed from when you knew her".	10
9	117	"Human beings change," said Verna.	10
9	123	"It is my recommendation," said Verna, "that you forget about her".	10
9	130	"How fierce the slave is," exclaimed Verna, in mock fear.	10
9	132	Verna, idly, began to play at the side of my throat with the sleen knife.	10
9	137	"In it," said Verna, "she begged that he purchase her freedom".	10
9	139	"Only slaves beg to be purchased," said Verna.	10
9	155	"Speak," said Verna to Mira, "what else you saw, before their camp was broken, before their tarns took flight".	10
9	158	"Yes," laughed Verna, "according to the codes of the warriors and by the rites of the city of Ar, no longer is Talena kin or daughter of Marlenus of Ar".	10
9	169	"Of course," said Verna.	10
9	172	"We gagged her first," said Verna, "that we might not be annoyed by her outcries".	10
9	174	"Anticipating such a desire," laughed Verna, "we had written confirmation of the enactment, signed with the seal of Marlenus himself.	10
9	184	"The moons are not yet risen," said Verna, sharply.	10
9	187	"What of Talena?" I asked Verna.	10
9	188	"The following day," said Verna, "we ungagged her and set her about her duties".	10
9	190	"She performed them well," said Verna.	10
9	192	"If she had not," said Verna, "she would have been beaten".	10
9	195	"So now," asked Verna, "how excellent a match do you think Talena would be?" Talena was now nothing.	10
9	197	"Yes," said Verna, "do you wish her brought forth to look upon you?" "No," I said.	10
9	200	"She is now without much value," said Verna.	10
9	203	"Probably to one of Tyros, as a pleasure slave," said Verna.	10
9	206	What Verna had said was undoubtedly true.	10
9	207	"It would be my recommendation," said Verna, "that you put her from your mind".	10
9	209	"You may take my word for it," said Verna.	10
9	212	"She is only a slave girl," said Verna.	10
9	215	"Yes," smiled Verna, "in the forests we have well taught her the meaning of slavery".	10
9	217	"But, too," laughed Verna, "I do not think you would longer find her much enjoyable".	10
9	219	"We have also taught her," smiled Verna, "as only panther girls can, the despicability of men".	10
9	221	"She now despises men," said Verna, "and yet she knows, too, that it will be her fate to serve them".	10
9	222	"Her experiences," said Verna, "will be exquisitely humiliating.	10
9	225	"There are those who rule," said Verna, "and those who serve".	10
9	238	"You mean," asked Verna, "why am I not at your feet, bound naked between the stakes, as you are at mine, your slave?" "Yes," I said.	10
9	262	"What was the name of the girl you took in the forest?" asked Verna.	10
9	264	Verna nodded.	10
9	268	"What did you do with her?" asked Verna.	10
9	270	"Excellent," said Verna.	10
9	276	Verna kicked me suddenly, viciously, in the side.	10
9	281	Verna smiled.	10
9	284	There was bitterness in Verna's face.	10
9	306	Verna then, without speaking further, turned and left me.	10
9	316	Perhaps, if it had pleased me, I would have given her Verna, as her personal serving slave, a souvenir of her ordeal in the forest and the glorious triumph which culminated that ordeal.	10
9	362	Once again Verna stood over me.	10
9	369	"The moons are now risen," said another panther girl, edging closer to Verna.	10
9	374	Verna looked down upon me.	10
9	381	"You are now well marked," said Verna, "as a man who has fallen to women".	10
9	385	"Bring a whip," said Verna.	10
9	389	"Beat him," said Verna.	10
9	392	"It is enough," said Verna.	10
9	394	I did not question Verna further.	10
9	401	Verna had only wished to administer a sharp, not-soon-to-be-forgotten, lesson to her slave.	10
9	422	Only Verna still knelt, her hands on her thighs, looking at the moons.	10
9	429	Verna threw back her head, her fists clenched on her thighs, and cried out, a wild scream, as though in agony.	10
9	460	Verna lifted her head.	10
9	470	I saw Verna's arms, too, pinned behind her.	10
10	2	Marlenus handed Verna to one of his men.	10
10	12	"Traitress!" cried Verna, held by the man to whom Marlenus had handed her.	10
10	13	"Traitress!" Mira went to stand before Verna.	10
10	14	She spit in Verna's face.	10
10	16	Verna struggled, but she was held, helplessly.	10
10	20	"I will be second to Hura," said Mira to Verna, "when her band arrives to command this portion of the forests".	10
10	21	Verna said nothing.	10
10	28	Marlenus looked at Verna.	10
10	30	Swiftly Verna was thrown to her back between the stakes.	10
10	37	The girls of Verna, with the exception of Mira, their hands tied behind their backs, were now, by a long strip of binding fiber, being fastened together by the ankle.	10
10	38	"But though you are an outlaw," said Marlenus, looking down upon Verna, "you are also a woman".	10
10	49	In the eyes of the proud Verna, to my amazement, I thought I saw tears.	10
10	59	Verna cried out with rage.	10
10	60	He looked down at Verna.	10
10	62	He indicated Verna with his foot.	10
10	86	"What is to be done with us?" demanded Verna.	10
10	89	Verna gasped in fury, and was silent.	10
10	132	Then Marlenus turned to Verna.	10
10	134	Verna was silent.	10
10	139	Verna looked up.	10
10	140	"She is near an exchange point," said Verna.	10
10	144	Verna looked up at him.	10
10	146	Marlenus turned away from her, and went to examine the line of bound girls, Verna's band.	10
10	162	Marlenus returned to where Verna lay bound.	10
10	164	"Have you no collar for me, Ubar?" asked Verna.	10
10	166	Verna looked at him in fury.	10
10	197	Marlenus sat down, cross-legged, by Verna.	10
10	215	For a long time Marlenus studied the expressions on Verna's face.	10
10	227	"We shall return to Verna's camp.	10
10	232	One by one, the girls, their wrists still bound behind their back, their left ankles still in coffle, were dragged before Verna.	10
10	233	Each one, steel at her throat, her eyes glazed, hair before her face, was held before Verna.	10
10	236	"Verna!" wept one.	10
10	240	"At your camp," Marlenus informed Verna, "we will put them in proper chains".	10
10	241	Marlenus then released Verna's wrists, and her right ankle.	10
10	259	Verna shook with fury, and turned her head away.	10
10	260	Marlenus then took a length of binding fiber, of some eight feet in length, and knotted one end of it about Verna's throat.	10
10	263	Verna was now free of the stakes.	10
11	107	Verna made a beautiful slave girl.	10
11	110	This infuriated Verna.	10
11	113	Long ago, more than a year ago, when he had first captured Verna on a hunting expedition, prior to her escape and acquisition of Talena, and her return to the forests, he had intended to bring her to Ar in triumph and there, in the great square before Ar's central cylinder, publicly enslave her.	10
11	121	Verna had stood before him, waiting to be given the skins of panthers.	10
11	126	Then she was again Verna.	10
11	131	But perhaps Verna's response was not simply to silk.	10
11	139	I wondered if Verna had ever dreamed of herself in such silk.	10
11	155	When Marlenus took his meals in his tent, or wished refreshments or wine, Verna, the new girl, served him.	10
11	163	Verna, from where she knelt, looked at him, angrily, holding the two-handled wine vessel.	10
11	200	I tried to imagine how Cara might have stood, had she been in the place of Verna.	10
11	210	We observed Verna.	10
11	214	Verna, seething, did so.	10
11	218	Verna, in fury, reached down and snatched up the bit of slave silk.	10
11	255	I did not envy Verna.	10
11	263	"Verna," I said, "is strong willed.	10
11	284	Verna was totally unsuspecting.	10
11	287	Verna's conquest would be total.	10
11	295	I doubted that Verna, unless conquered, would willingly endure another examination of the sort to which we had casually subjected her this evening, the rather detailed appraisal of a slave girl by masters.	10
11	363	He begged that Verna, who stood nearby, be permitted to display the product, so that I might better judge its sheen and quality.	10
11	384	"The girl, Verna," he said, "has fled".	10
11	399	I thought of Verna fleeing through the night forest, swiftly, silently, wary, excited, elated, heart beating.	10
11	401	Verna was a lovely tabuk.	10
11	405	It was the day following Verna's flight.	10
11	407	We saw Verna immediately.	10
11	420	Verna was clad only in the bit of yellow slave silk she had worn when she escaped.	10
11	427	Verna struggled in the bonds.	10
11	429	She struck Verna in the shoulder with the butt of her spear, that of a free woman.	10
11	430	Hura reached to Verna's collar.	10
11	440	Marlenus was looking down on Verna, bound kneeling at his feet.	10
11	444	"I am not one of your girls!" screamed Verna.	10
11	448	Verna struggled in her bonds.	10
11	451	"She-sleen!" wept Verna.	10
11	453	"Traitress!" screamed Verna.	10
11	460	The choke straps were removed from Verna's throat.	10
11	469	She, and Mira, followed Marlenus, he holding Verna as a slave girl, within the stockade.	10
11	472	"I do not care if you beat me," said Verna, in pain.	10
11	479	He forced Verna to her knees beside him.	10
11	482	Watching, too, circled about, were Verna's girls, in their panther skins, chained together by the left ankle.	10
11	484	Present, too, of course, were Hura and Mira, Verna's enemies.	10
11	490	Verna looked up at Marlenus, proudly, defiantly.	10
11	497	"I am Verna," she said, "the outlaw".	10
11	510	"Ubar!" screamed Verna.	10
11	526	Verna was looking at Marlenus with horror.	10
11	528	Two huntsmen threw Verna forward, holding her head toward the ground.	10
11	534	"I am a woman!" screamed Verna.	10
11	537	"I am a woman!" screamed Verna.	10
11	543	"Yes, yes!" wept Verna.	10
11	545	"Yes," cried Verna.	10
11	547	"Yes, yes," wept Verna, "I am completely a female".	10
11	549	"I am completely and only a female," wept Verna.	10
11	551	Verna's body shuddered with relief.	10
11	555	Terror sprang anew into Verna's eyes.	10
11	561	"Master!" screamed Verna.	10
11	566	"Please, Master!" wept Verna.	10
11	569	"Yes, Master," wept Verna.	10
11	578	The other girls, too, were frightened, Verna's girls, in their panther skins, chained by their left ankle.	10
11	580	Verna had been shattered.	10
11	590	Verna knelt back on her heels.	10
11	611	He looked down at Verna.	10
11	615	"These other slaves," said Marlenus, indicating Verna's former girls, "take them away".	10
11	617	There was not one of them but what knew that what had happened to Verna might have happened to any one of them.	10