Book 25. (7 results) Magicians of Gor (Context Quote)
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I was curious to observe this small encounter, but I had come mainly to protect her, if it seemed necessary.
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I was not certain as to how her approach, and overture, might be received.
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She was, after all, even though in the seeming livery and collar of a state slave, still only a slave.
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Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for the agent's amusement, to remind her of her present vulnerability and station, of her change in condition, that it was not now she who was to be pleased but rather that now it was she who must please.
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Too, she might be recalled, as well, from her days as a house slave in the house of Appanius.
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There, of course, particularly as a new slave, she would have been at the mercy of the men of the house, and, I supposed, of even the higher slaves.
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They might have formed the habit then of treating her poorly, or venting spite and frustration upon her.
I was curious to observe this small encounter, but I had come mainly to protect her, if it seemed necessary.
I was not certain as to how her approach, and overture, might be received.
She was, after all, even though in the seeming livery and collar of a state slave, still only a slave.
Too, she might be somehow remembered from the days of her freedom, when her person had been sacrosanct and inviolate, and her will selfish and imperious, and this might earn her some abuse, perhaps to assuage lingering resentments, accrued from formerly endured effronteries, or perhaps merely, for the agent's amusement, to remind her of her present vulnerability and station, of her change in condition, that it was not now she who was to be pleased but rather that now it was she who must please.
Too, she might be recalled, as well, from her days as a house slave in the house of Appanius.
There, of course, particularly as a new slave, she would have been at the mercy of the men of the house, and, I supposed, of even the higher slaves.
They might have formed the habit then of treating her poorly, or venting spite and frustration upon her.
- (Magicians of Gor, Chapter )