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| 22 | 598 | "View more quotes about perhaps">Perhaps the woman hears the word 'slave' or 'collar' spoken in her vicinity, seemingly innocently, seemingly inadvertently, it having supposedly nothing to do with her. |
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| 22 | 595 | "I do not understand," said Pertinax. |
| 22 | 596 | "They can read the language of the body and eyes, and voice," I said, "in general, and in given contexts, and situations, sometimes even contrived stimulus situations". |
| 22 | 597 | "I do not understand," he said. |
| 22 | 598 | "Perhaps the woman hears the word 'slave' or 'collar' spoken in her vicinity, seemingly innocently, seemingly inadvertently, it having supposedly nothing to do with her. |
| 22 | 599 | But someone notes her subtlest response, the slightest alertness, or fear, or hesitation, or such. |
| 22 | 600 | Perhaps a kajira on Earth, owned by a slaver, briefly, so briefly, by design, arranges a scarf or such and, for an instant, the other woman glimpses a collar. |
| 22 | 601 | What is her reaction? Is it such as to suggest that she, too, belongs in a collar and, perhaps in her fantasies, has had one about her neck, snapped shut, locked? Perhaps the kajira sees the woman's awareness, and smiles shyly, even apologetically, before adjusting the scarf, and hurrying away, leaving the woman standing there, astonished, unsteady. |