Others were not now in obvious contact with the stream but were nearby, perhaps fed by waters which had occasionally exceeded the normal boundaries of the stream, or by waters which had drained downward naturally, overflowing the sunken walls, filling the area, cisternlike, the expected result of the declivity in terrain.
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To be sure, she supposed that they might, or some of them, have been filled by water carried to them, from the nearby stream.
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That was a possibility.
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And within the ahn this possibility became even more obvious, and vivid.
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What startled Ellen was the large number of these pools.
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Surely there were at least thirty or forty of them, some on one side of the stream, some on the other.
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In several of them, sporting delightedly, some in the water, some splashing about, some assiduously washing, some attending to their hair, were groups of slave girls, ten in each group.
Others were not now in obvious contact with the stream but were nearby, perhaps fed by waters which had occasionally exceeded the normal boundaries of the stream, or by waters which had drained downward naturally, overflowing the sunken walls, filling the area, cisternlike, the expected result of the declivity in terrain.
To be sure, she supposed that they might, or some of them, have been filled by water carried to them, from the nearby stream.
That was a possibility.
And within the ahn this possibility became even more obvious, and vivid.
What startled Ellen was the large number of these pools.
Surely there were at least thirty or forty of them, some on one side of the stream, some on the other.
In several of them, sporting delightedly, some in the water, some splashing about, some assiduously washing, some attending to their hair, were groups of slave girls, ten in each group.
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )