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"Perhaps you recall," said Lord Okimoto, "the straits of the former siege, when desolation and starvation prowled about our gates". - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 61, Sentence #561)

I recalled that, long ago, near the edge of the northern forest, on the continent, shortly after I had been placed there by the ship of Peisistratus, a slaver, come from the steel world of Lord Arcesilaus, once that of Lord Agamemnon, the unwitting slave, Constantina, foolishly thinking she was a free woman, now the acknowledged, recognized, and explicit slave, Saru, had alluded to something of this nature, but, questioned, knew little of the matter. As the whole matter seemed tenuous and obscure, and doubtful, and nothing had come of it, I had dismissed it as false, even absurd, and, at best, as hearsay, founded on ungrounded rumor, if that. "What woman?" I said. "Perhaps you recall," said Lord Okimoto, "the straits of the former siege, when desolation and starvation prowled about our gates". "Of course," I said. "Slaves were bartered for as little as a fukuro of rice," he said. "I recall that," I said. - (Rebels of Gor)