For my part I did not think it would be a good idea to tell her that I had freed Dina.
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What good would that information do her? It might make her own bondage seem more cruel, or perhaps fill her with foolish hopes that Kamchak, her master, might someday bestow on her the same beautiful gift of freedom.
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I smiled at the thought.
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Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young warrior, sensing she was undefended and not of the Peoples, would have his chain on her before nightfall.
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And I myself did not intend to stay among the wagons.
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I had now learned, if the information of Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, lay in the wagon of Kutaituchik.
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I must attempt to obtain it and return it to the Sardar.
For my part I did not think it would be a good idea to tell her that I had freed Dina.
What good would that information do her? It might make her own bondage seem more cruel, or perhaps fill her with foolish hopes that Kamchak, her master, might someday bestow on her the same beautiful gift of freedom.
I smiled at the thought.
Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young warrior, sensing she was undefended and not of the Peoples, would have his chain on her before nightfall.
And I myself did not intend to stay among the wagons.
I had now learned, if the information of Saphrar was correct, that the golden sphere, doubtless the egg of Priest-Kings, lay in the wagon of Kutaituchik.
I must attempt to obtain it and return it to the Sardar.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )