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"A pen, ink?" "I have silk," she said, "and rouge, and bottles of cosmetics!" In a short time we had spread a large square of silk on the floor between us, and, carefully, finger in and out of a rouge pot, I had drawn the squares of the board. I put a dot in the center of the squares that would normally be red on a board, leaving those squares that would normally be yellow blank. Then, between us, we managed to find tiny vials, and brooches, and beads, to use as the pieces. In less than an ahn we had set up our board and pieces, and I had shown Sura the placing of the pieces and their moves, and had explained some of the elementary techniques of the game to her; in the second ahn she was actually negotiating the board with alertness, always moving with an objective in mind; her moves were seldom the strongest, but they were always intelligent; I would explain moves to her, discussing them, and she would often cry out "I see!" and a lesson never needed to be repeated. "It is not often," I said, "that one finds a woman who is pleased with the game". "But it is so beautiful!" she cried. We played yet another ahn and, even in that short amount of time, her moves had become more exact, more subtle, more powerful. - (Assassin of Gor, Chapter )