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| 59 | 130 | Of what View more quotes about interest">interest could we be to the beasts?" At that point there was a noise in the chamber behind us, and, when we looked back, we saw, moving toward us in the darkness, a number of glowing objects, some red, some white. |
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| 59 | 127 | "If we are prizes," said one of the women in the darkness, "why have we not been displayed?" I knew little of such matters, but I gathered that it was customary to publicly display at least some of the goods that might accrue to a victor, perhaps a vessel of silver, a buckle, pin, or armlet of gold, a fine kaiila, a lovely kajira. |
| 59 | 128 | "The master has arranged this festival for the beasts," said a woman. |
| 59 | 129 | "It is their festival. |
| 59 | 130 | Of what interest could we be to the beasts?" At that point there was a noise in the chamber behind us, and, when we looked back, we saw, moving toward us in the darkness, a number of glowing objects, some red, some white. |
| 59 | 131 | The pen was opened in the back, and some of the glowing objects apparently entered the pen, and, at the same time, before us, the gate leading from the pen to the chute was flung upward. |
| 59 | 132 | "Into the chute!" we heard. |
| 59 | 133 | We crowded into the chute, frightened, pressed closely together. |