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| 28 | 59 | Is he so arrogant, so View more quotes about sure">sure of me! Perhaps I shall run away! I could show him! I could teach him not to take me for granted! Does he think I am a slave? But, alas, I am a slave! Let him awaken and find me gone! How he treats me! I do not want to be a slave! I am miserable! But where could I, a slave, run? Should I be lost in the grasslands, or be eaten by ravaging sleen? And I am tunicked, branded, collared! There is no escape for me on this world! There is no escape for the Gorean slave girl! If I were not eaten, or did not die of exposure, nor of thirst or starvation, I would be caught and acquired, if not by him, by another, like a stray kaiila. |
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| 28 | 56 | She pressed the side of her face, sobbing, into the grass. |
| 28 | 57 | She felt the narrow, fibrous, cool, dawn-moist, living blades against her tear-streaked cheek. |
| 28 | 58 | He has not bound me, he has not shackled me, she thought. |
| 28 | 59 | Is he so arrogant, so sure of me! Perhaps I shall run away! I could show him! I could teach him not to take me for granted! Does he think I am a slave? But, alas, I am a slave! Let him awaken and find me gone! How he treats me! I do not want to be a slave! I am miserable! But where could I, a slave, run? Should I be lost in the grasslands, or be eaten by ravaging sleen? And I am tunicked, branded, collared! There is no escape for me on this world! There is no escape for the Gorean slave girl! If I were not eaten, or did not die of exposure, nor of thirst or starvation, I would be caught and acquired, if not by him, by another, like a stray kaiila. |
| 28 | 60 | Would my collar not show me slave? And even if I could somehow get it off, might not a man simply seize my leg and examine my thigh, noting there my brand? That would not be difficult. |
| 28 | 61 | I am clearly marked. |
| 28 | 62 | And what if he, my master, followed and recovered me? What would then be my fate? She felt the wet grass on the side of her cheek. |