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| 8 | 405 | View more quotes about already">Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy. |
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| 8 | 402 | I resolved that that indiscretion must never be repeated. |
| 8 | 403 | But even in my righteous self-castigations, which I, of Earth, deemed I should proclaim, at least to myself, and even behind the fragile curtain of that resolve which I thought to interpose between what I supposed I should be and what I suspected I was, there seemed a subtle, elusive whispering, mocking and insistent, kajira, kajira. |
| 8 | 404 | Then I stood less proudly, and lowered my head. |
| 8 | 405 | Already, in the scarlet swirl of memory, rising and falling like some warm fluid, I was uneasy. |
| 8 | 406 | In my belly were clear stirrings. |
| 8 | 407 | Had I not sensed the beginning of such things, even before my red-silking? Does not being barefoot, tunicked, and collared have its effect, in knowing that one, so degraded, is a slave? What was going on in my body? How was I changing? What had been done to me? I remembered the arms of the guards, so strong about me, I so weak in their grasp. |
| 8 | 408 | And I remembered those last, brief sensations, casually bestowed on a slave, so unexpected, so different, so startling, so irresistible, which I had so wanted to have prolonged, which I had piteously begged might be continued. |