The other slaves on the shelf ceased then to attend to Jill and Ellen.
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Emris called out "Buy me, Master!" to a handsome fellow in the crowd but he continued on his way.
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The second possible buyer who seemed to show some interest in Ellen, the first being he with whom she had with some success kept herself seemingly inert, did not come to the shelf until late in the afternoon.
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An incident occurred something like an ahn before that, and, say, some twenty Ehn, or so, after her unpleasant encounter with Jill at the ring.
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We mention it for its intrinsic interest, but also because it, in its way, assisted an Earth woman in attaining a somewhat richer understanding of the world on which she now found herself slave.
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Ellen was lying on the shelf, her eyes closed against the sun, when suddenly, almost at her side, there was a loud, swift, scuffling noise and there was suddenly something large, extremely large, and alive, at least fifteen or twenty feet long, and weighing easily several hundred pounds, on the shelf beside her, something which had just arrived, scratching and twisting about, on its surface.
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It was almost over her.
The other slaves on the shelf ceased then to attend to Jill and Ellen.
Emris called out "Buy me, Master!" to a handsome fellow in the crowd but he continued on his way.
The second possible buyer who seemed to show some interest in Ellen, the first being he with whom she had with some success kept herself seemingly inert, did not come to the shelf until late in the afternoon.
An incident occurred something like an ahn before that, and, say, some twenty Ehn, or so, after her unpleasant encounter with Jill at the ring.
We mention it for its intrinsic interest, but also because it, in its way, assisted an Earth woman in attaining a somewhat richer understanding of the world on which she now found herself slave.
Ellen was lying on the shelf, her eyes closed against the sun, when suddenly, almost at her side, there was a loud, swift, scuffling noise and there was suddenly something large, extremely large, and alive, at least fifteen or twenty feet long, and weighing easily several hundred pounds, on the shelf beside her, something which had just arrived, scratching and twisting about, on its surface.
It was almost over her.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )