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| 23 | 23 | I saw she was reluctant to View more quotes about approach">approach Pertinax, which was not surprising, given certain occurrences of the preceding evening, near the stable. |
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| 23 | 20 | Much depends, of course, on her remaining the preferred slave. |
| 23 | 21 | If a new slave should usurp her place at the master's slave ring, her life may become a misery, particularly if she is not popular with her sister slaves, is perceived as having abused her power, and so on. |
| 23 | 22 | Saru shook her head, pathetically, frightened. |
| 23 | 23 | I saw she was reluctant to approach Pertinax, which was not surprising, given certain occurrences of the preceding evening, near the stable. |
| 23 | 24 | She was well aware of the reproach with which he now viewed her. |
| 23 | 25 | He had done his best to make her feel shamed, inferior, and worthless. |
| 23 | 26 | And I feared he had succeeded in this endeavor, given the lingering effects of her Earth conditioning, a conditioning in virtue of which she remained poignantly vulnerable to such assaults. |