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Secondly they are of a suitable length, and would serve nicely, to bind the wrists and ankles of a woman. The soldiers doubtless took it for granted that the small, graceful figure passing through their ranks was that of a compatriot, a woman of Ar, one with whom they shared a Home Stone. If they had thought her of a foreign city she might not have made it past the capture straps of the first man at arms. The awe with which the free woman of one's own city is regarded, reinforced by habit, training, custom, and tradition, does not at all apply to the free women of another city, unless perhaps a close ally, nor, indeed, does it even apply to a woman of one's own city, should she have been reduced to bondage. A spurned suitor occasionally has the pleasure of buying a woman who once refused him, for chaining naked to his slave ring. The awe with which the free woman was regarded, approaching, was doubtless not only enhanced by the sumptuousness of her robes, but by her very presence, for, as it might be recalled, no free women were present at the "festivities". What was she doing here, at all, and, in particular, advancing so assuredly amongst them? Too, there is no doubt that her alleged "pet," or companion, so large, and Kurlike, contributed not a little to their apprehension, and astonishment. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )