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| 29 | 158 | My View more quotes about captor">captor would be most likely an outtrekker, a guard or scout of sorts, one who would cover the forest flank of the group's march, the river on the other side. |
| 29 | 159 | The leader would be with the main group, where she might apprehend, direct, and command. |
| 29 | 160 | The leader, who was also blond, with long braided hair, in two plaits, dangling to the small of her back, was the largest of the four women. |
| 29 | 161 | Her ornaments were the gaudiest, and most abundant, her mottled skins, which would blend well with a background of bark and shadows, seemed the finest and loveliest of the four; they were light, well-worked, form-fitting, smooth, and supple, and might have won the grudging approval of an examining fellow of the caste of leather workers. |
| 29 | 162 | Too, I had gathered that leadership in such a band was not easily purchased, but often won by the knife or spear. |
| 29 | 163 | A defeated leader, if surviving, was banished from the group, being driven away into the forest, alone. |
| 29 | 164 | Sometimes free women, miserable and unhappy in their lives, resentful of the conventional constraints commonly imposed on them in the cities and towns, fleeing unwanted matches, debtors hoping to escape the law, and such, attempted to join a band of Panther Girls. |