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| 17 | 161 | These humans are View more quotes about usually">usually thralls and bondmaids, but not always. |
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| 17 | 158 | Four days ago I had seen a girl drive in which several sleen, fanning out over a large area of territory, had scented out scattered, hiding slave girls and, from various points, driven them into a blind canyon, where a waiting Kur had swung shut a wooden gate on them, fastening them inside. |
| 17 | 159 | Sleen are also used to patrol the large return marches of groups of foraging expeditions, those marches between the temporary holding areas and the main camp. |
| 17 | 160 | The order of such a march is typically as follows: Captured humans, in single file, form its center. |
| 17 | 161 | These humans are usually thralls and bondmaids, but not always. |
| 17 | 162 | The spoils are carried by the captured male humans, unless there are too many, and then the residue is divided among the bondmaids. |
| 17 | 163 | Kurii burden the males heavily; they can think of little more than the weight they carry, and the next step; furthermore, their wrists are usually tied to the straps of their improvised backpacks. |
| 17 | 164 | Kurii, unlike Goreans, do not subject bondmaids to heavy labor; it toughens their meat; the bondmaids are separated from the males, that they be deprived of leadership; furthermore, the technique of keeping prisoners in single file, separating them by some feet, and preventing speech between them, tends to make conjoint action between them unlikely. |