She was hitherto from one of the Steel Worlds, one of the animals kept there, she for the purpose of grooming her master.
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The tiny fingers and nibbling teeth of such females are well fitted for this task.
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It was not perfectly clear at the time how she came into the possession of priest-kings.
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One supposed it might have been a matter of bartering at an exchange point, between our humans and those of priest-kings, for such interactions occasionally occur, however illegitimately; or she may have been taken to the surface by our human allies as, so to speak, negotiable currency, to be there exchanged unobtrusively for local coin.
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That is sometimes done.
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Too, there might have been a crashed or downed ship.
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Perhaps then she had been retrieved from her cage, perhaps drawn from fiery or smoking debris.
She was hitherto from one of the Steel Worlds, one of the animals kept there, she for the purpose of grooming her master.
The tiny fingers and nibbling teeth of such females are well fitted for this task.
It was not perfectly clear at the time how she came into the possession of priest-kings.
One supposed it might have been a matter of bartering at an exchange point, between our humans and those of priest-kings, for such interactions occasionally occur, however illegitimately; or she may have been taken to the surface by our human allies as, so to speak, negotiable currency, to be there exchanged unobtrusively for local coin.
That is sometimes done.
Too, there might have been a crashed or downed ship.
Perhaps then she had been retrieved from her cage, perhaps drawn from fiery or smoking debris.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter )