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Book 4. (498 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
9	94	Indeed, to the annoyance of Elizabeth Cardwell, who had spent her nights under the wagon in the last weeks, there were two such in our own wagon, the girl Dina, whom I had snared in the contests of the bola, and her companion, the fine wench who had bitten the neck of Kamchak's kaiila and had attemp...	10
27	65	"All hail Kamchak," they cried, "Ubar San!" "All hail Kamchak," rang throughout the hall, "Kamchak! Ubar San!" It was late in the afternoon before the business of the day had subsided and the great hall emptied.	10
27	148	"Hail," said I, "Kamchak, Ubar San!" "Hail," cried Harold, "Kamchak, Ubar San!" Kamchak smiled and looked down.	10
7	206	Who, or what, could dare such a thing? Besides, how did I know that the message was not from Priest-Kings? I knew, as Kamchak and Kutaituchik did not, of the recent Nest War beneath the Sardar, and of the disruption in the technological complexes of the Nest—who knew to what primitive devices...	10
7	217	"What," I asked Kamchak, "would you do if you thought the message were truly from Priest-Kings?" "Nothing," said Kamchak, gravely.	10
7	259	He took the meat in his hand and gave it to Kamchak, who bit into it, a bit of juice running at the side of his mouth; Kamchak then held the meat to the girl.	10
8	108	I supposed that on the morrow Kamchak would call for the Tuchuk Iron Master, to brand what he called his little barbarian; the brand of the Tuchuk slave, incidentally, is not the same as that generally used in the cities, which, for girls, is the first letter of the expression Kajira in cursive scri...	10
8	532	Had I not saved her? Were not the points between Kamchak and I, and Conrad and Albrecht even? Was she not safe and the match at an end? "The score is tied," said Kamchak, "and the wager is concluded.	10
10	14	The standard of the Kassars is that of a scarlet, three-weighted bola, which hangs from a lance; the symbolic representation of a bola, three circles joined at the center by lines, is used to mark their bosk and slaves; both Tenchika and Dina wore that brand; Kamchak had not decided to rebrand them,...	10
10	125	Kamchak! Free a slave! And, I told myself, even if I myself owned Elizabeth, and not Kamchak, I could not free her—for what would it be to free her? If she approached Turia she would fall slave to the first patrol that leashed and hooded her; if she tried to stay among the wagons, some young ...	10
10	446	Thus if Kamras chose a weapon with which Kamchak did not feel at ease, the Tuchuk might, with some grace, decline the combat, in this forfeiting only a Kassar girl, which I was sure would not overly disturb the philosophical Kamchak.	10
10	455	The important point, however, in the circumstances was that Kamras had proposed the sword as the weapon of his encounter with Kamchak, and poor Kamchak was almost certain to be as unfamiliar with the sword as you or I would be with any of the more unusual weapons of Gor, say, the whip knife of Port ...	10
11	75	He then turned to Kamchak, "What, Tuchuk, did you say her price was?" "I have lowered it," said Kamchak.	10
11	341	She threw back her hand with the knife to rush forward and thrust it into the heart of Kamchak but the coil of the whip lashed forth and I saw its stinging tip wrap four times about the wrist and forearm of the Turian girl who cried out in sudden pain and Kamchak had stepped to the side and with a m...	10
11	401	"Do you not recall," asked Kamchak, "what I then said to you—what I said at that time?" "No!" cried the girl leaping up, but Kamchak had jumped toward her, scooped her up and threw her over his shoulder.	10
12	11	It was possible, of course, that I might declare my mission to Kutaituchik or Kamchak, and see what would occur—but I knew that Kamchak had said to Saphrar of Turia that the Tuchuks were fond of the golden sphere—and I had no hopes that I might make them part with it—and surely ...	10
12	426	"And I," howled Kamchak, "have only miserable cooking-pot wenches!" Kamchak and I were standing up.	10
12	498	I might, of course, and would, encourage Kamchak to sell her to a good master, but Kamchak, cooperative to a point, would undoubtedly have his eye fixed most decisively on the price to be obtained.	10
13	142	Among the animals I saw many verr; some domestic tarsks, their tusks sheathed; cages of flapping vulos, some sleen, some kaiila, even some bosk; by the Paravaci haruspexes I saw manacled male slaves, if such were to be permitted; commonly, I understood from Kamchak, the Tuchuks, Kassars and Kataii r...	10
13	196	"Must the Iron Master be called," I asked, "to the wagon of Kamchak?" Kamchak looked at me.	10
21	209	It had seemed strange to me that Kamchak, the resolute, implacable Kamchak of the Tuchuks, had so soon surrendered his assault on the city—not that I expected it would have been, if prolonged, successful.	10
23	206	Aphris had, according to the woman, fallen into the hands of the Paravaci who had looted Kamchak's wagon; Elizabeth's fate she did not know; I gathered, of course, from the fact that Elizabeth had been sent to another wagon that Kamchak had sold her.	10
23	219	Kamchak, I knew, however, cared little for the slave, and would not be much concerned; yet her fate concerned me, and I hoped that she might live, that her beauty if not compassion or justice might have won her life for her, be it only as a Paravaci wagon slave; and then, too, I wondered again on th...	10
24	9	I and Kamchak expected Saphrar to flee by tarn at any moment, for it must now be clear to him that the strike of the Paravaci against the Tuchuk wagons and herds had not forced Kamchak to withdraw; indeed, his forces were now supplemented by Kataii and Kassars, a development which must have horrifie...	10
25	164	I could scarcely believe that the proud creature who stood chained before me was she whom Kamchak and I had referred to as the Little Barbarian; whom I had been able to think of only as a timid, simple girl of Earth, a young, pretty little secretary, one of nameless, unimportant thousands of such in...	10
26	115	"Give greetings to Saphrar of Turia from Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said Kamchak calmly.	10
26	169	Kamchak signaled for a bag of gold, and Phanius Turmus was kicked forward, and from a large, bronze pan which he carried, Kamchak removed a sack of gold and threw it to one side.	10
26	528	Well did I recall how Kamchak had made Albrecht of the Kassars pay dearly for the return of his little darling, Tenchika, and how he had roared with laughter because the Kassar had paid such a price, obviously having allowed himself to care for a mere slave girl, and she a Turian at that! "I would g...	10
26	552	Kamchak glared at Harold, and then at me, and then he looked down, scratching his ear; then he looked at us again, and all three of us suddenly burst together into laughter, and tears even streamed down Kamchak's face, running here and there amongst the scarred furrows on his cheeks.	10
27	31	"Who," laughed Kamchak, "is Ubar of Turia?" "Kamchak of the Tuchuks," said the two.	10
27	58	"Kamchak, Ubar San!" Kamchak held forth his hands and the room was quiet.	10
27	221	"This woman," said Kamchak of the Tuchuks, brusquely, his voice stern but almost breaking, "is called Aphris—know her—she is Ubara of the Tuchuks, she is Ubara Sana, of my heart Ubara Sana!" We let Kamchak and Aphris ride ahead, and followed them, by some hundred yards, toward the main...	10
2	181	"Hear my name," cried he, "I am Kamchak of the Tuchuks!" As suddenly as he had finished, as soon as the men had named themselves, as if a signal had been given, the four kaiila bounded forward, squealing with rage, each rider bent low on his mount, lance gripped in his right hand, straining to be th...	10
5	1	The Prisoner I followed the warrior Kamchak into the encampment of Tuchuks.	10
5	10	I was told by Kamchak that once an army of a thousand wagons turned aside because a swarm of rennels, poisonous, crablike desert insects, did not defend its broken nest, crushed by the wheel of the lead wagon.	10
5	12	By one fire I could see a squat Tuchuk, hands on hips, dancing and stamping about by himself, drunk on fermented milk curds, dancing, according to Kamchak, to please the sky.	10
5	22	Kamchak saw that I had noticed the girl and chuckled, sensing that I might find it strange, seeing a slave so among the wagons.	10
5	30	"Of course," said Kamchak.	10
5	32	"Her master," said Kamchak, "does not trust her".	10
5	35	"At night," said Kamchak, "she is chained under the wagon".	10
5	37	"Turian girls are proud," said Kamchak.	10
5	41	"In time," said Kamchak, "she will beg for the rag of a slave".	10
5	48	As Kamchak and I walked to his wagon, I saw several girls, here and there, clad Kajir; they were magnificent; they walked with the true brazen insolence of the slave girl, the wench who knows that she is owned, whom men have found beautiful enough, and exciting enough, to collar.	10
5	52	Kamchak and I laughed.	10
5	79	"What fool is this?" she demanded of Kamchak.	10
5	80	"No fool," said Kamchak, "but Tarl Cabot, a warrior, one who has held in his hands with me grass and earth".	10
5	82	"He should be slain!" Kamchak grinned up at her.	10
5	85	Kamchak laughed.	10
5	88	"What is there to tell?" asked Kamchak.	10
5	90	Kamchak laughed.	10
5	93	"To be of the First Wagon," said Kamchak, "is to be of the household of Kutaituchik".	10
5	97	"His wagon," smiled Kamchak, "is the First Wagon—and it is Kutaituchik who sits upon the gray robe".	10
5	99	"That robe," said Kamchak, "which is the throne of the Ubars of the Tuchuks".	10
5	101	"You will sometime be taken into the presence of Kutaituchik," said Kamchak.	10
5	103	I gathered from this remark that Kamchak was a man of no little importance among the Tuchuks.	10
5	104	"There are a hundred wagons in the personal household of Kutaituchik," said Kamchak.	10
5	107	"And the girl—she on the kaiila—is perhaps the daughter of Kutaituchik, Ubar of the Tuchuks?" "No," said Kamchak.	10
5	110	Kamchak laughed, the colored scars wrinkling on his broad face.	10
5	111	"Of course," said Kamchak, "she has been raised to be a fit prize in the games of Love War".	10
5	113	"Did you not see the Plains of a Thousand Stakes?" asked Kamchak.	10
5	116	I was about to press Kamchak on this matter when we heard a sudden shout and the squealing of kaiila from among the wagons.	10
5	118	Kamchak lifted his head intently, listening.	10
5	120	Kamchak read the message of the drum and horn.	10
6	1	To the Wagon of Kutaituchik Kamchak strode among the wagons, toward the sound, and I followed him closely.	10
6	15	Kamchak stepped to the center of the grassy lane, lifting his hand, and the two riders, with their prize, reined in their mounts.	10
6	28	Kamchak, too, seemed surprised at the sight of the girl, for never had he seen one so peculiarly attired.	10
6	32	Kamchak went to her and took her head in his hands.	10
6	43	She gave a little cry as Kamchak jerked the shoes from about her neck.	10
6	53	Kamchak looked in puzzlement at the riders, and they at him.	10
6	70	I turned to Kamchak.	10
6	76	"Excellent," said Kamchak, grinning at me.	10
6	78	"Help me!" Kamchak said to me.	10
6	82	Kamchak was now, curiously, fingering her yellow garment.	10
6	91	Kamchak then removed her remaining garments, even the shreds of nylon stockings that had hung about her ankles.	10
6	96	Kamchak picked up the clothing which lay near her on the grass.	10
6	100	"Burn it," said Kamchak.	10
6	105	"Tell her," said Kamchak, "that she must learn Gorean quickly—that she will be slain if she does not".	10
6	109	"I don't know where I am—or how I got here—I want to get back to America—I'm an American citizen—my home is in New York City—take me back there—I will pay you—anything!" "Tell her," repeated Kamchak, "that she must learn Gorean quickly—and that...	10
6	125	Kamchak seemed impatient.	10
6	129	"What is her city?" asked Kamchak.	10
6	131	"I have never heard of it," said Kamchak.	10
6	135	"Is there grass for the bosk in her lands?" asked Kamchak.	10
6	137	"Farther even than Thentis?" asked Kamchak.	10
6	141	Kamchak whistled.	10
6	145	Kamchak grinned at me.	10
6	150	Kamchak nodded at me, and then at the girl.	10
6	153	"She says she was alone," I told Kamchak.	10
6	154	"How came she here?" asked Kamchak.	10
6	157	"She says she does not know," I told Kamchak.	10
6	158	"It is strange," said Kamchak.	10
6	162	When Kamchak thought she had drunk enough he pulled the nozzle from her mouth, pushed back the plug and returned the skin to the boy.	10
6	163	Dazed, exhausted, covered with sweat, dust on her face and legs, wine on her body, Elizabeth Cardwell, her wrists thonged behind her and her throat bound to a lance, stood captive before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
6	166	"She must learn Gorean," said Kamchak to me.	10
6	179	"No, no, no!" Kamchak nodded to the two riders mounted on kaiila.	10
6	182	Kamchak and I regarded one another.	10
6	187	"It is a message collar," said Kamchak.	10
7	14	At the edge of the dais Kamchak and I had stopped, where our sandals were removed and our feet washed by Turian slaves, men in the Kes, who might once have been officers of the city.	10
7	18	It was undoubtedly that of which Kamchak had spoken, the robe upon which sits the Ubar of the Tuchuks, that simple robe which is his throne.	10
7	24	He said nothing, nor did Kamchak.	10
7	33	Kamchak and I waited until the string had been chewed.	10
7	34	When Kamchak had finished he held out his right hand and a man, not a Tuchuk, who wore the green robes of the Caste of Physicians, thrust in his hand a goblet of bosk horn; it contained some yellow fluid.	10
7	36	He then shook himself and regarded Kamchak.	10
7	39	"As well as may be expected," said Kamchak.	10
7	40	"Are the quivas sharp?" "One tries to keep them so," said Kamchak.	10
7	42	"Yes," said Kamchak, "I believe so".	10
7	43	Kutaituchik suddenly reached out and he and Kamchak, laughing, clasped hands.	10
7	56	Kamchak gestured to me.	10
7	61	"It is the only Gorean she knows," Kamchak informed him.	10
7	69	The interrogation, to my surprise, was conducted largely by Kamchak, rather than Kutaituchik, called Ubar of the Tuchuks.	10
7	70	Kamchak's questions were detailed, numerous, complex.	10
7	75	Kutaituchik and Kamchak, to my pleasure, tended to restrain judgment on these matters; to my gratification they did not seem to regard the girl as mad; I had been afraid, from time to time, that they might, losing patience with what must seem to them to be the most utter nonsense, order her beaten o...	10
7	76	I did not know then, but Kutaituchik and Kamchak had some reason for supposing that the girl might be speaking the truth.	10
7	79	At last Kamchak had finished, and Kutaituchik, too, and they leaned back, looking at the girl.	10
7	83	Kamchak gestured with his head.	10
7	140	"Position," said Kamchak.	10
7	144	"The collar," said Kamchak, "is Turian".	10
7	147	But how was it that Elizabeth Cardwell, of Earth, wore a Turian message collar? Kamchak drew the quiva from his belt and approached the girl.	10
7	150	Kamchak set the blade of the quiva between the girl's throat and the collar and moved it, the leather collar seeming to fall from the blade.	10
7	152	Kamchak returned to his place where he again sat down cross-legged, putting the cut collar on the rug in front of him.	10
7	157	Kamchak handed the paper to Kutaituchik and he took it but looked at it, I thought, blankly.	10
7	158	Saying nothing he handed it back to Kamchak, who seemed to study it with great care, and then, to my amazement, turned it sideways and then upside down.	10
7	183	Kamchak grinned at Kutaituchik, the scarring on his face wrinkling with pleasure.	10
7	195	"Put your sword away and sit down," said Kamchak.	10
7	197	"It is," said Kamchak, "obviously not a message of Priest-Kings".	10
7	199	The scarred face wrinkled again and Kamchak rocked back and slapped his knees.	10
7	202	"Do you think Priest-Kings would need a girl to find you?" Kamchak threw back his head and laughed loudly, and even Kutaituchik smiled.	10
7	203	"No," said Kamchak, slapping his knee, "Priest-Kings do not need Tuchuks to do their killing".	10
7	204	What Kamchak had said then seemed to make a great deal of sense to me.	10
7	218	"You would risk," I asked, "the herds—the wagons—the peoples?" Both Kamchak and I knew that Priest-Kings were not lightly to be disobeyed.	10
7	221	"Yes," said Kamchak.	10
7	225	Kutaituchik, Kamchak and I then regarded Elizabeth Cardwell.	10
7	233	I translated for Kamchak and Kutaituchik.	10
7	242	"Please, please, please!" My hand was on the hilt of my sword, but Kamchak's hand rested on mine.	10
7	243	Kamchak turned to Kutaituchik.	10
7	247	"Yes," she said, piteously, "yes!" Kutaituchik, Kamchak and I regarded her.	10
7	249	I translated for Kutaituchik and Kamchak.	10
7	262	She, a slave, had accepted meat from the hand of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	3	"It is the Omen Year," had said Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	8	"Be patient, Tarl Cabot," said Kamchak, beside me on his kaiila.	10
8	16	I wondered on what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, said to take place on the Plains of a Thousand Stakes.	10
8	18	"After the games of Love War," said Kamchak, "the omens will be taken".	10
8	29	How was it, I wondered, that Kamchak was going to Turia in the spring? I sensed him to be a man of importance with the wagons.	10
8	48	"The bosk are safe," Kamchak had said.	10
8	56	"Well done!" cried Kamchak as he saw the tospit, unsplit, impaled halfway down the shaft of the lance, stopped only by my fist and the retaining strap.	10
8	67	Kamchak then rode, and he, like Conrad of the Kassars, deftly took the fruit from the wand; indeed, his lance entering the fruit perhaps a fraction of an inch less than had Conrad's.	10
8	72	Elizabeth cried out again, with pleasure, for she was of the wagon of Kamchak and Tarl Cabot.	10
8	74	I tensed, but Kamchak laughed, and held me back.	10
8	80	Of course, Kamchak had rented three Turian girls, slaves, to train her; they had done so, binding her wrists and leading her about the wagons, teaching her the words for things, beating her with switches when she made mistakes; Elizabeth had learned quickly.	10
8	85	La Kajira!" Kamchak had folded her, still weeping, clad in the Sirik, in the richness of the pelt of the red larl in which she had originally been placed before us.	10
8	87	Kamchak, that night, chained Elizabeth Cardwell in his wagon, rather than beneath it to the wheel, running a short length of chain from a slave ring set in the floor of the wagon box to the collar of her Sirik.	10
8	91	Kamchak had looked at me.	10
8	101	I tried to talk to Kamchak and help him to understand the shock that the girl had undergone, the total alteration of her life and circumstances, unexplained—finding herself alone on the prairie, the Tuchuks, the capture, the return to the Wagons, her examination in the grassy avenue, the Siri...	10
8	102	I tried to explain to Kamchak that her old world had not prepared her for these things, for the slaveries of her old world are of a different kind, more subtle and invisible, thought by some not even to exist.	10
8	103	Kamchak said nothing, but then he got up and from a chest in the wagon he took forth a goblet and filled it with an amber fluid, into which he shook a dark, bluish powder.	10
8	107	Once or twice that night, to Kamchak's annoyance and my own loss of sleep, she screamed, jerking at the chain, but we discovered that she had not awakened.	10
8	118	"Kamchak of the Tuchuks is your master," I said.	10
8	123	When Kamchak rolled out of his furs Elizabeth, involuntarily, shrank back, until the pole would permit her to withdraw no further.	10
8	124	Kamchak looked at me.	10
8	136	I was forced to admit that she was, on almost all counts, pretty much what Kamchak thought—a little barbarian.	10
8	138	Kamchak snapped his fingers and pointed to the rug, Elizabeth then knelt to him, clutching the pelt about her, and put her head to his feet.	10
8	140	To my surprise Kamchak, for no reason that he explained to me, did not clothe Elizabeth Cardwell Kajir, much to the irritation of other slave girls about the camp.	10
8	146	At last she had finished the garment, and Kamchak unchained her that she might rise and put it on.	10
8	148	Kamchak took one look and, with a quiva, shortened it considerably, indeed, until it hung even more briefly than had the quite short, delightful yellow shift in which she had been captured.	10
8	151	"But you are slave," had said Kamchak.	10
8	155	Kamchak, a man, had desired to see them.	10
8	156	Besides being a man, of course, Kamchak was her master; he owned the wench; thus he would have his desire.	10
8	159	Kamchak made her walk back and forth once or twice, and spoke to her rather sharply about her posture, then, to the surprise of both Miss Cardwell and myself, he did not chain her, but told her she might walk about the camp unattended, warning her only to return before dusk and the release of the he...	10
8	163	Kamchak grinned.	10
8	168	On the whole, it seemed to me that Kamchak treated his little barbarian slave notably well, considering that he was Tuchuk.	10
8	171	"It is all I could find," she told Kamchak.	10
8	174	Elizabeth Cardwell never again brought a half-filled dung sack to the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
8	177	He rode his kaiila to Kamchak.	10
8	179	"She is not for sale," said Kamchak.	10
8	181	He was Albrecht of the Kassars, and, with Conrad of the Kassars, had been riding against myself and Kamchak.	10
8	183	Kamchak's eyes gleamed.	10
8	192	"No," cried Albrecht, "I am serious!" "Done!" cried Kamchak.	10
8	194	As soon as Kamchak had agreed to Albrecht's proposal the children and several of the slave girls immediately began to rush toward the wagons, delightedly crying, "Wager! Wager!" Soon, to my dismay, a large number of Tuchuks, male and female, and their male or female slaves, began to gather near the ...	10
8	209	I was second rider to Kamchak, as Albrecht was to Conrad, he of the Kassars, the Blood People.	10
8	212	In the hour that followed I rejoiced that I had spent much of the last several months, when not riding with Kamchak in the care of his bosk, in the pleasant and, to a warrior, satisfying activity of learning Tuchuk weaponry, both of the hunt and war.	10
8	213	Kamchak was a skilled instructor in these matters and, freely, hours at a time, until it grew too dark to see, supervised my practice with such fierce tools as the lance, the quiva and bola.	10
8	219	Kamchak had been pleased.	10
8	222	As the day grew late points were accumulated, but, to the zest and frenzy of the crowd, the lead in these contests of arms shifted back and forth, first being held by Kamchak and myself, then by Conrad and Albrecht.	10
8	223	In the crowd, on the back of a kaiila, I noted the girl Hereena, of the First Wagon, whom I had seen my first day in the camp of the Tuchuks, she who had almost ridden down Kamchak and myself between the wagons.	10
8	225	She, and others like her, had been encouraged and spoiled from childhood in all their whims, unlike most other Tuchuk women, that they might be fit prizes, Kamchak had told me, in the games of Love War.	10
8	236	Kamchak had told me of the young man.	10
8	262	Kamchak raced his kaiila over to the edge of the crowd, entering into swift negotiation with a warrior, one whose wagon followed ours in the march of the Tuchuks.	10
8	263	Indeed, it had been from that warrior that Kamchak had rented the girls who had dragged Elizabeth Cardwell about the wagons, teaching her Gorean with thong and switch.	10
8	277	If Kamchak and her master were not convinced that she had run as well as she might, it would not go easily with her.	10
8	282	Kamchak wheeled his kaiila and joined us.	10
8	294	Tuchuk girls, Elizabeth and Tuka, would run for the Kassars; the two Kassar girls would run for Kamchak and myself; naturally each slave does her best for her master, attempting to evade his competitor.	10
8	301	Kamchak gestured and Tuka, barefoot, frightened, stepped into the circle.	10
8	320	"She runs well," said Kamchak.	10
8	330	In terror Tuka looked up at Kamchak, mounted on his kaiila.	10
8	336	The next girl, a lithe Kassar girl, stepped into the circle and Kamchak unstrapped his bola.	10
8	337	It seemed to me she ran excellently but Kamchak, with his superb skill, snared her easily.	10
8	339	By the time Kamchak had cuffed the girl from the animal's neck and struck the kaiila's snapping jaws from her twice-bitten leg and returned to the circle, he had used thirty-five beats.	10
8	347	At a gesture from Kamchak Elizabeth Cardwell stepped into the circle of the whip.	10
8	349	She, and I as well, had supposed that Kamchak would be victorious over Conrad.	10
8	373	"Be silent," said Kamchak.	10
8	380	"Do you concede?" Conrad asked Kamchak.	10
8	381	"No," said Kamchak.	10
8	384	"Nonetheless," said Kamchak, "he will ride".	10
8	386	Kamchak shrugged.	10
8	407	I noted a flicker pass through the eyes of Kamchak, but he seemed otherwise impassive.	10
8	449	Kamchak laughed, too, so hard tears ran down the scarred furrows of his face.	10
8	455	But, though the moment might have been amusing to those of the Wagon Peoples, even to Kamchak, I was not prepared to look on the event with such good humor.	10
8	458	Little did we know that one of those girls was Dina of Turia, who, of course, would run not for the skilled Kamchak, but for his awkward friend, the clumsy Tarl Cabot, not even of the Wagon Peoples, new to the kaiila and bola! Conrad and Albrecht had perhaps even come to the camp of the Tuchuks with...	10
8	460	The best that we might have hoped for was a tie, had Kamchak beaten Conrad.	10
8	467	She cried out angrily, as did Albrecht, and Kamchak laughed.	10
8	480	Even if by good fortune I managed to tie Albrecht, Elizabeth would still belong to the Kassars, for Conrad had a clear win over Kamchak.	10
8	497	"Time!" called Kamchak.	10
8	500	"Time!" called Kamchak.	10
8	504	Kamchak was thumping a very despondent looking Conrad and Albrecht on the shoulders.	10
8	526	Kamchak was laughing, and Conrad as well.	10
8	540	"That is true," said Kamchak.	10
8	542	"I have ridden enough for today," said Kamchak.	10
8	550	Kamchak sucked in his breath.	10
8	551	Several in the crowd shouted out, "The living wand!" I looked at Kamchak.	10
8	559	"Stand for him, Slave," snarled Kamchak.	10
8	610	It was with a kind of shock that I suddenly realized that she, and Dina of Turia, now belonged to Kamchak and myself.	10
8	611	The two girls, while Elizabeth Cardwell looked on angrily, knelt before Kamchak and myself, lowering their heads, lifting and extending their arms, wrists crossed.	10
8	612	Kamchak, chuckling, leaped down from his kaiila and quickly, with binding fiber, bound their wrists.	10
8	618	"Be silent," said Kamchak, "or you will be branded".	10
8	619	Elizabeth Cardwell, for some reason, looked at me in fury, rather than Kamchak.	10
8	621	Then for no reason I understood, I took binding fiber and bound her wrists before her body, and, as Kamchak had done with the other girls, put a thong on her neck and tied it to the pommel of my saddle.	10
8	623	"Tonight, Little Barbarian," said Kamchak, winking at her, "you will sleep chained under the wagon".	10
8	625	Then Kamchak and I, on kaiilaback, made our way back to our wagon, leading the bound girls.	10
8	626	"The Season of Little Grass is upon us," said Kamchak.	10
8	632	"I will take you to Turia," said Kamchak.	10
9	1	Aphris of Turia There was little doubt that I, in the worn, red tunic of a warrior, and Kamchak, in the black leather of the Tuchuks, seemed somewhat out of place at the banquet of Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	3	It was somewhat surprising to me that Kamchak and I, being in our way ambassadors of the Wagon Peoples, were entertained in the house of Saphrar, the merchant, rather than in the palace of Phanius Turmus, Administrator of Turia.	10
9	4	Kamchak's explanation was reasonably satisfying.	10
9	49	I looked to one side and saw Kamchak scraping another plate clean, holding it to his mouth, sliding and shoving the carefully structured design of viands into his mouth.	10
9	53	"Do not object that we are entertained in the house of Saphrar of the Merchants," Kamchak had said, "for in Turia power lies with such men".	10
9	60	"Besides," Kamchak had told me, nudging me in the ribs, "the food and the entertainment are better in the house of Saphrar than in the palace of Phanius Turmus".	10
9	62	I wondered how the stomach of Kamchak could sustain the delightful injuries he was heaping into it with such gusto.	10
9	69	This afternoon Kamchak and I, leading four pack kaiila, had entered the first gate of nine-gated Turia.	10
9	73	Kamchak told me, a sort of secret I gather, that some of the things he carried had been exchanged back and forth a dozen times.	10
9	74	One small, flat box, however, Kamchak would not turn over to the stewards of Phanius Turmus, whom he met at the first gate.	10
9	91	I mentioned this to Kamchak and he laughed loudly.	10
9	111	The only one in the room who did not participate in this ceremony was Kamchak, who thought that such a libation, in the eyes of the sky, would not have been fitting.	10
9	122	The free women, shamelessly to the mind of the rather prudish Kamchak, lowered their veils and threw back the hoods of their Robes of Concealment, enjoying the feast, eating with much the same Gorean gusto as their men.	10
9	125	I did think, however, that it was somewhat unusual that they should appear in public unveiled, particularly with Kamchak and myself present.	10
9	147	There had been a magician, who particularly pleased Kamchak, and a man who, whip in hand, guided a dancing sleen through its paces.	10
9	148	I could pick up snatches of conversation between Kamchak and Saphrar, and I gathered from what was said that they were negotiating places of meeting for the exchange of goods.	10
9	149	Then, later in the evening, when I was drunker on paga than I should have permitted myself to become, I heard them discuss details which could only have pertained to what Kamchak had called the games of Love War, details having to do with specifications of time, weapons and judges, and such.	10
9	155	"How can you determine that she is selected?" Kamchak was asking.	10
9	157	Out of the corner of my eye I could see Kamchak's dark eyes gleaming.	10
9	166	I recalled Kamchak had spoken of her once or twice.	10
9	169	"The richest woman in all Turia," Kamchak said.	10
9	172	This supposition was later confirmed by Kamchak.	10
9	177	I could sense that she had almost immediately seen myself and Kamchak, strangers at the tables.	10
9	179	I heard Saphrar whisper to Kamchak, whose eyes glowed as they rested on the figure in white and gold on the distant stairway.	10
9	181	"It is hard to tell," said Kamchak.	10
9	184	Kamchak shrugged, his wily Tuchuk trading shrug.	10
9	187	"Still," Kamchak said, "the Tuchuks are fond of it".	10
9	189	"I must think on the matter," Kamchak was saying, not taking his eyes from Aphris of Turia.	10
9	195	Even I, in spite of my preoccupation with the conversation of Kamchak and Saphrar, would have found it difficult, had I wished, to take my eyes from her.	10
9	200	Kamchak was still watching Aphris of Turia.	10
9	210	"The golden sphere for Aphris of Turia," Saphrar whispered to Kamchak.	10
9	211	Kamchak turned to the small, fat merchant and his scarred, furrowed face broke into a grin, bearing down on the round, pinkish face of the merchant.	10
9	213	"Very well," snapped Saphrar, "then you will not obtain the woman—I shall see to that—and somehow I shall have the sphere—understand that!" Kamchak now turned to watch Aphris of Turia.	10
9	217	Saphrar gestured to two of the camisk-clad girls in the room, who brought cushions and a silken mat and placed them between Saphrar and Kamchak.	10
9	227	"I am sorry, Lady Aphris," said he, "but under the circumstances—" She looked about, and then it seemed she saw Kamchak.	10
9	229	Kamchak, though sitting cross-legged, seemed to bounce twice on the cushions, slapping the small table, rattling dishes for a dozen feet on either side.	10
9	233	Aphris of Turia, pleased with herself, assumed her place between the merchant and Kamchak, kneeling back on her heels in the position of the Gorean free woman.	10
9	235	She turned to Kamchak.	10
9	237	"Two years ago," said Kamchak, "in such a place at such a time—you recall it was then you called me a Tuchuk sleen".	10
9	239	"I had brought you a five-belt necklace of diamonds," said Kamchak, "for I had heard you were beautiful".	10
9	241	Kamchak slapped the table in merriment again.	10
9	244	"And it was then," said Kamchak, still laughing, "that I vowed I would make you my slave".	10
9	251	Kamchak was now swilling paga and acted as though he had not heard the remark of Kamras.	10
9	257	Kamchak now was still smiling, but he no longer laughed.	10
9	267	"How comes it," asked she, "that a Koroban rides in the stinking wagon of a Tuchuk sleen?" "The wagon does not stink," I said, "and Kamchak of the Tuchuks is my friend".	10
9	277	I supposed Saphrar was still irritated at Kamchak's refusal to give up, or arrange the transfer of, the golden sphere.	10
9	278	I did not clearly understand Kamchak's motivations in this matter—unless, of course, he knew the true nature of the golden sphere, in which case, naturally, he would recognize it as priceless.	10
9	286	The girl laughed merrily once more and turned to Kamchak.	10
9	288	Kamchak shrugged.	10
9	291	"I see them," said Kamchak, spreading his hands to both sides, grinning.	10
9	293	Kamchak looked puzzled.	10
9	299	Kamchak was angry.	10
9	300	"Did you truly think," asked Aphris of Turia arrogantly, "that a Tuchuk would be permitted to look upon the face of a free woman of Turia?" Kamchak's fists were clenched on the table, for no Tuchuk likes to be fooled.	10
9	303	But Kamchak said nothing.	10
9	306	"We have many girls among the wagons quite as good," said Kamchak.	10
9	308	"Yes," said Kamchak, "Turians—slaves—such as you will be".	10
9	310	Kamchak laughed.	10
9	314	Kamchak laughed.	10
9	319	Kamchak was swilling down another bolt of paga, part of it running out at the side of his mouth.	10
9	332	I wondered if Kamchak would rise to do war in the very room.	10
9	334	Their leader, to her surprise, seeing Kamchak, fell in shame to her knees before him, much to the fury of the Feast Steward; the others did so as well.	10
9	337	Even I had not seen Kamchak throw the knife.	10
9	339	Several of the men had leaped from behind the tables, including Kamras, but they hesitated, seeing Kamchak so armed.	10
9	342	"Ah," said Kamchak, bowing to him, "I did not know".	10
9	345	"I wish to see them perform," said Aphris of Turia, though she stood within an arm's reach of Kamchak's quiva.	10
9	346	Kamchak laughed, looking at her.	10
9	351	"What shall I do?" begged the kneeling girl of Kamchak.	10
9	354	Kamchak spoke to her, very gently.	10
9	359	One girl, the leader of the dancers, she who had spoken to Kamchak, was a Tuchuk girl, and was particularly startling, vital, uncontrollable, wild.	10
9	361	At the height of one of her dances, called the Dance of the Tuchuk Slave Girl, Kamchak turned to Aphris of Turia, who was watching the dance, eyes bright, as astounded as I at the savage spectacle.	10
9	362	"I will see to it," said Kamchak, "when you are my slave, that you are taught that dance".	10
9	364	Kamchak waited until the girls of the Wagon Peoples had performed their dances and then, when they had been dismissed, he rose to his booted feet.	10
9	367	"What is in the box?" asked Aphris of Turia, as she saw Kamchak pick up the small black box which, throughout the banquet, he had kept at his right knee.	10
9	369	Kamchak shrugged.	10
9	374	"It is nothing," said Kamchak, "only a trinket".	10
9	376	"I had thought," said Kamchak, "that I might give it to you".	10
9	380	"I will take it home with me," said Kamchak.	10
9	385	"Yes," said Kamchak, "it is other than a necklace of diamonds".	10
9	389	"But you would not like it," said Kamchak, diffidently.	10
9	391	"No," said Kamchak, "you would not like it".	10
9	393	Kamchak shrugged and looked down at the box in his hand.	10
9	397	"Truly?" asked Kamchak.	10
9	399	"Give it to me!" "Very well," said Kamchak, "but I must ask to place it on you myself".	10
9	404	So then Kamchak bent down to where Aphris of Turia knelt, her back straight, her head very high, before the low table.	10
9	409	Kamchak then opened the box.	10
9	414	Kamchak lifted from the box an object indeed intended to grace the throat of a girl.	10
9	416	There was a firm snap of the heavy lock in the back of the collar and the throat of Aphris of Turia had been encircled with slave steel! At the same instant Kamchak lifted her startled to her feet and turned her to face him, with both hands tearing the veil from her face! Then, before any of the sta...	10
9	418	I stood beside Kamchak, ready to defend him with my life, yet as startled as any in the room at what had been done.	10
9	421	Kamchak was looking at her.	10
9	426	Kamchak smiled.	10
9	429	There were cries on all sides, "Slay the Tuchuk sleen!" "Torture for him!" "The oil of tharlarions!" "Leech plants!" "Impalement!" "Tongs and fire!" But Kamchak seemed unmoved.	10
9	432	"Have you no shame?" The girl attempted to rearrange the folds of the veil, but could only hold it before her face, for Kamchak had ripped away the pins by which it was customarily fastened.	10
9	435	I was pleased, though I would not have admitted it, at Kamchak's boldness, for it was a face for which a man might risk much, even death in the torture dungeons of Turia, utterly beautiful though now, of course, transformed with rage, far more beautiful than had been that of the most beautiful of th...	10
9	436	"You recall, of course," Kamchak was saying, "that I am an ambassador of the Wagon Peoples and am entitled to the courtesies of your city".	10
9	444	"You are challenged!" said Kamras, spitting to the floor at Kamchak's booted feet.	10
9	445	For an instant I saw Kamchak's eyes gleam and thought he might at the very table at which he stood accept the challenge of the Champion of Turia, but instead, he shrugged and grinned.	10
9	447	It did not sound like Kamchak speaking.	10
9	450	But to my amazement, Kamchak only smiled.	10
9	453	"What is to be gained?" inquired Kamchak.	10
9	457	"If you will meet Kamras, Champion of Turia, I—Aphris of Turia—will stand at the stake in Love War!" Kamchak looked at her.	10
9	463	Kamchak had, by means of the very pride of Aphris of Turia, of Kamras, and the offended Turians, brought the girl by her own will to the stake of Love War.	10
9	480	Thus, if Aphris of Turia, by some mischance, were to fall to Kamchak, and surely slavery, her considerable riches would be immediately assigned to Saphrar, merchant of Turia.	10
9	484	"Thank you, my guardian," said Aphris of Turia, and with one last vicious look at Kamchak threw back her head and with a swirl of her white gown, bordered with gold, walked regally from between the tables.	10
9	485	"To see her walk," remarked Kamchak, rather loudly, "one would hardly suspect that she wears the collar of a slave".	10
9	488	"I meant only, little Aphris," said Kamchak, "—that you wear your collar well".	10
10	1	Love War It was early in the morning, several days after Saphrar's banquet, that Kamchak and myself, among some hundreds of others of the Four Wagon Peoples, came to the Plains of a Thousand Stakes, some pasangs distant from lofty Turia.	10
10	8	Kamchak rode near the head of the Tuchuk line.	10
10	13	These, like Kamchak, rode rather near their respective standard bearers.	10
10	15	Elizabeth Cardwell, barefoot, in the larl's pelt, walked beside Kamchak's stirrup.	10
10	17	Yesterday afternoon, for an incredible forty pieces of gold, four quivas and the saddle of a kaiila, Kamchak had sold Tenchika back to Albrecht.	10
10	18	It was one of the highest prices ever paid among the wagons for a slave and I judged that Albrecht had sorely missed his little Tenchika; the high price he was forced to pay for the girl was made even more intolerable by Kamchak's amusement at his expense, roaring with laughter and slapping his knee...	10
10	101	When I had returned to the wagon Kamchak's first words to me had been, "I hope you got a good price for her".	10
10	111	"She was a person—" said Elizabeth, "—a human person—" "No!" said Kamchak, giving her head a shake.	10
10	113	"I think—" said Kamchak, "I will sell you".	10
10	116	Kamchak's words had disturbed me as well.	10
10	117	I think it was then, perhaps the first time since her first coming to the Wagon Peoples, that she fully understood her plight—for Kamchak had, on the whole, been kind to her—he had not put the Tuchuk ring in her nose, nor had he clothed her Kajir, nor put the brand of the bosk horns on...	10
10	118	Now, again, Elizabeth, visibly shaken, ill, realized that she might, should it please Kamchak's whims, be sold or exchanged with the same ease as a saddle or a hunting sleen.	10
10	123	What good would that information do her? It might make her own bondage seem more cruel, or perhaps fill her with foolish hopes that Kamchak, her master, might someday bestow on her the same beautiful gift of freedom.	10
10	131	It was best that she understand herself for what she was, a barbarian slave girl in the wagon of Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	132	"Yes," said Kamchak, "I think I will sell her".	10
10	133	Elizabeth shook with terror and put her head to the rug at Kamchak's feet.	10
10	135	"What do you think she would bring?" asked Kamchak.	10
10	137	I did not wish Kamchak to sell her.	10
10	138	"Perhaps I could have her trained—" mused Kamchak.	10
10	141	"Would you like to learn," asked Kamchak of the girl, "to wear silk and bells, to speak, to stand, to walk, to dance—to drive men mad with the desire to own and master you?" The girl said nothing but shuddered.	10
10	142	"I doubt if you could learn," said Kamchak.	10
10	144	"You are only a little barbarian," said Kamchak wearily.	10
10	149	I followed Kamchak out of the wagon.	10
10	157	Kamchak pointed to the pouch.	10
10	162	"And, too," he added, "she was a beauty!" Kamchak laughed.	10
10	164	"Any man who permits himself to care for a slave girl," said Kamchak, "is a fool".	10
10	165	"Perhaps someday," I said, "even Kamchak of the Tuchuks will care for a slave girl".	10
10	166	At this Kamchak threw back his head and roared, and then bent over slapping his knee.	10
10	168	At this Kamchak lost all control over himself and he leaned over backward slapping his thighs with the palms of his hands, laughing as though he were demented.	10
10	174	"Yes," said Kamchak, "but I am Tuchuk—so I will get drunk".	10
10	177	By starting from the side and turning his head quickly, Kamchak bested me by some eighteen inches.	10
10	184	I gathered Kamchak had his mind on Aphris of Turia, and was, perilously to my mind, counting his wenches before he had won them.	10
10	200	Kamchak looked at the sun, which was now about a quarter of the way up the sky.	10
10	213	"You're right," said Kamchak, rising in the stirrups.	10
10	233	"Really," said Kamchak.	10
10	235	"It is a Turian joke," said Kamchak.	10
10	239	Kamchak smiled at me.	10
10	242	Kamchak laughed.	10
10	258	"Hah!" said Kamchak, seeing now the lines of tharlarion part for a space of perhaps forty yards, through which could be seen the screened palanquins of Turian damsels, some on the shoulders of chained slaves, among them undoubtedly men of the Wagon Peoples.	10
10	266	I once asked Kamchak if the Wagon Peoples had a justification for the games of Love War.	10
10	269	"That is the justification," said Kamchak.	10
10	282	I heard a judge call, "First Stake! Aphris of Turia!" "Hah!" yelled Kamchak, slapping me on the back, nearly knocking me from the back of my kaiila.	10
10	289	I had also been informed by Kamchak that this places the girl farther from her own people.	10
10	293	Kamchak explained that there was a slight gap between two of her teeth on the upper-right-hand side in the back.	10
10	301	Kamchak and I had visited one last night where I had ended up spending four copper tarn disks for one bottle of paga.	10
10	302	I hauled Kamchak out of the wagon before he began to bid on a chained-up little wench from Port Kar who had taken his eye.	10
10	313	Kamchak was working his kaiila through the crowd toward the first stake.	10
10	319	"No," Kamchak said.	10
10	321	"I see you no longer wear your collar," observed Kamchak.	10
10	323	"I have another," Kamchak assured her.	10
10	326	"How pleased I shall be," hissed the girl, "to see you on your knees in the sand begging Kamras of Turia to finish you!" "Tonight, little Aphris," said Kamchak, "as I promised you, you shall spend your first night in the dung sack".	10
10	328	"Sleen! Sleen!" Kamchak roared with laughter and turned the kaiila away.	10
10	355	"I would like to take a look at this one," Kamchak was saying, jerking a thumb in the direction of Aphris of Turia.	10
10	357	"Can you not remember, Sleen," asked the girl, "the face of Aphris of Turia?" "My memory is vague," said Kamchak.	10
10	363	"It's vague," muttered Kamchak, wavering, "I had in mind I think the face of a slave—there was, as I recall, a collar—" "You tharlarion," she said.	10
10	364	"You sleen!" "What do you think?" asked Kamchak.	10
10	366	"There are probably several better among the stakes," said Kamchak.	10
10	375	"Aren't you going to fight for her?" I asked Kamchak.	10
10	376	"Certainly," said Kamchak.	10
10	383	"You must fight for me!" "Do you ask it?" inquired Kamchak, interested.	10
10	386	"Very well," said Kamchak, "I will fight for you".	10
10	388	Then she regarded Kamchak with pleasure.	10
10	390	Kamchak shrugged, not dismissing the possibility.	10
10	397	"She must be plain indeed," remarked Kamchak, looking closely again at Aphris.	10
10	399	"Oh, no!" cried Kamchak, throwing his fist to his forehead in mock despair.	10
10	402	"I had had much paga at the time," admitted Kamchak.	10
10	411	"Where are your Kassars?" asked Kamchak.	10
10	418	"But you are only a Kassar wench," pointed out Kamchak.	10
10	420	"Besides," said Kamchak, "you might look well in Pleasure Silk".	10
10	422	"Is she not beautiful? Do you not want her?" Kamchak looked at Aphris of Turia.	10
10	425	"All right," said Kamchak.	10
10	438	Kamchak looked up at him.	10
10	439	It was not that Kamchak was particularly short, but rather that Kamras was a very large man.	10
10	440	"By the sky," said Kamchak, whistling, "you are a big fellow indeed".	10
10	444	Unfortunately for Kamchak, I knew that this was the year in which the Turian foeman might propose the weapon of combat.	10
10	447	"Ah, yes, weapons," Kamchak was saying, "what shall it be—the kaiila lance, a whip and bladed bola—perhaps the quiva?" "The sword," said Kamras.	10
10	459	"But I am only a poor Tuchuk," wailed Kamchak.	10
10	463	"But how would I, a poor Tuchuk," Kamchak was moaning, "know anything of the sword?" "Then withdraw," said Kamras, loftily, "and I will take this Kassar wench slave to Turia".	10
10	468	"Well," said Kamchak, "I certainly would not want that to happen either".	10
10	475	"I want him slain," she cried, "cut into tiny pieces, the death of a thousand cuts!" "Withdraw," I advised Kamchak.	10
10	482	He then turned to Kamchak.	10
10	484	"But perhaps I will not fight," said Kamchak warily.	10
10	487	"But then again," mused Kamchak, "perhaps I shall".	10
10	489	"I will fight," announced Kamchak.	10
10	491	The judge now entered the name of Kamchak of the Tuchuks on his list.	10
10	494	Kamchak seemed lost in thought and then he looked up brightly.	10
10	497	"I will choose the sword," said Kamchak.	10
10	502	"Withdraw," I urged Kamchak.	10
10	504	"It is too late now," said Kamchak, innocently.	10
10	507	Kamchak picked his up as though it were a wagon lever, used for loosening the wheels of mired wagons.	10
10	509	Then Kamras, and I give him credit, said to Kamchak, "Withdraw".	10
10	514	Kamchak was running his thumb on the blade.	10
10	522	"But," said Kamchak, "it was a good idea".	10
10	523	I seized Kamchak by the shoulders.	10
10	527	Suddenly the eyes of Kamchak gleamed.	10
10	531	"No," said Kamchak, and his eyes were like steel, "better death than shame".	10
10	534	I would sorely miss my friend, the ribald, hard-drinking, stomping, dancing Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	535	In the last moment I cried out to Kamchak, "For the sake of Priest-Kings, hold the weapon thus!" trying to teach him the simplest of the commoner grips for the hilt of the short sword, permitting a large degree of both retention and flexibility.	10
10	538	I now realized Kamras had only wished to drive Kamchak from the field, a chastened and humiliated man.	10
10	541	I stepped away from Kamchak and Kamras approached him, by training, cautiously.	10
10	542	Kamchak was looking at the edge of his sword, turning it about, apparently noting with pleasure the play of sunlight on the blade.	10
10	544	Kamchak turned to see what I had in mind and to his great good fortune, as he did so, the sun flashed from the blade into the eyes of Kamras, who suddenly threw his arm up, blinking and shaking his head, for the instant blinded.	10
10	546	"What?" asked Kamchak.	10
10	549	It had been incredibly fortunate for Kamchak that the blade had flashed precisely at the time it had in the way it had.	10
10	551	Kamras lunged and it looked like Kamchak threw up his arm at the last instant as though he had lost balance, and indeed he was now tottering on one boot.	10
10	553	Kamras then began to chase Kamchak about the ring of sand.	10
10	554	Kamchak was nearly stumbling over backward and kept trying to regain his balance.	10
10	555	In this chase, rather undignified, Kamras had struck a dozen times and each time, astoundingly, the off-balance Kamchak, holding his sword now like a physician's pestle, had managed somehow to meet the blow.	10
10	559	Then, as though weary, Kamchak, puffing, sat down in the sand.	10
10	562	Each time the Turian struck and I would have thought Kamchak slain, somehow, incomprehensibly, at the last instant, nearly causing my heart to stop, with a surprised, weary little twitch, the blade of the Tuchuk would slide the Turian steel harmlessly to the side.	10
10	563	It was only about this time that it dawned on me that for three or four minutes Kamchak had been the object of the ever-more-furious assault of Turia's champion and was, to this instant, unscratched.	10
10	564	Kamchak then struggled wearily to his feet.	10
10	566	For more than a minute, while I scarcely dared to breathe and there was silence all about save for the ring of steel, I watched Kamchak stand there, heavy in his boots, his head seeming almost to sit on his shoulders, his body hardly moving save for the swiftness of a wrist and the turn of a hand.	10
10	568	Once again, expertly, the sun flashed from the sword of Kamchak in his eyes.	10
10	570	Then, foot by booted foot, Kamchak advanced toward him.	10
10	574	"Slay him!" howled Aphris of Turia! For perhaps better than fifteen minutes, patiently, not hurrying, Kamchak of the Tuchuks shuffled after Kamras of Turia, touching him once more and ever again, each time leaving a quick, bright stain of blood on his tunic or body.	10
10	575	And then, to my astonishment, and that of the throng who had gathered to witness the contest, I saw Kamras, Champion of Turia, weak from the loss of blood, fall to his knees before Kamchak of the Tuchuks.	10
10	576	Kamras tried to lift his sword but the boot of Kamchak pressed it into the sand, and Kamras lifted his eyes to look dazed into the scarred, inscrutable countenance of the Tuchuk.	10
10	577	Kamchak's sword was at his throat.	10
10	578	"Six years," said Kamchak, "before I was scarred was I mercenary in the guards of Ar, learning the walls and defenses of that city for my people.	10
10	580	Kamras fell in the sand at the feet of Kamchak, unable even to beg for mercy.	10
10	581	Kamchak did not slay him.	10
10	586	I rushed to Kamchak and threw my arms about him laughing and hugging him.	10
11	1	Bells and Collar Kamchak regarded Aphris of Turia.	10
11	7	"Well done, Tuchuk!" said the girl, saluting Kamchak.	10
11	8	Kamchak shrugged.	10
11	12	Kamchak laughed loudly.	10
11	14	Kamchak suddenly cuffed Aphris of Turia.	10
11	18	Kamchak had not hit her hard, but sharply enough to instruct her.	10
11	35	Kamchak had his arm about my shoulder, chuckling.	10
11	37	Aphris turned her head to Kamchak.	10
11	39	"Name your price!" Kamchak looked at me.	10
11	54	Kamchak squeezed my shoulder and rubbed his nose.	10
11	64	Kamchak would undoubtedly continue to call her Aphris, but it would be now his name for her and not her own.	10
11	67	"I think," roared Kamchak, "I will call her Aphris of Turia!" "Free me, Saphrar," cried the girl piteously, "free me!" Saphrar laughed.	10
11	85	"It does not matter," said Kamchak soothingly to the girl.	10
11	88	"No," said Kamchak, taking her hair and giving her head a friendly shake, "I would not have sold you for all the gold in Turia".	10
11	90	"Do you recall," asked Kamchak, "one night two years ago when you spurned my gift and called me sleen?" The girl nodded, her eyes frightened.	10
11	91	"It was on that night," said Kamchak, "that I vowed to make you my slave".	10
11	93	"And it is for that reason," said Kamchak, "that I would not sell you for all the gold of Turia".	10
11	95	"It was on that night, little Aphris," said Kamchak, "that I decided I wanted you—and would have you—slave".	10
11	97	The laugh of Kamchak of the Tuchuks was loud.	10
11	99	In short order then Kamchak took the key over the head of Aphris of Turia and sprang open the retaining rings.	10
11	104	"Submit," ordered Kamchak.	10
11	106	Kamchak quickly and tightly thonged them together.	10
11	109	"No," said Kamchak, "there is no hurry".	10
11	111	Already Kamchak was placing a thong on her neck, the loose end of which he looped several times about the pommel of his saddle.	10
11	114	Elizabeth Cardwell, unbound, had already taken her position on the other side of Kamchak's kaiila, beside his right stirrup.	10
11	115	Then Kamchak, with his two women, and I, left the Plains of a Thousand Stakes and set out for the wagons of the Tuchuks.	10
11	118	Slave girls ran beside us, jeering at Kamchak's tethered prize; free women looked up from their ladles and kettles to stare with jaundiced eye at yet another Turian woman brought to the camp.	10
11	119	"She was First Stake," called Kamchak to the jeering girls.	10
11	121	Kamchak was grinning from ear to ear.	10
11	124	"It is true!" roared Kamchak, grinning and slapping the side of the saddle.	10
11	125	To be sure there might have been some doubt that the miserable wench thonged behind Kamchak's kaiila could have been first stake.	10
11	127	When Kamchak reached his wagon, the poor girl, gasping for breath, legs trembling, fell exhausted to the grass, her entire body shaking with the ordeal of her run.	10
11	135	Kamchak leaped down from the saddle of the kaiila, puffing a bit.	10
11	148	"You will see," said Kamchak, "that she wears the pelt of a larl—that she is not collared, that she does not wear the nose ring, that she does not wear the brand".	10
11	151	"Do you wonder, Little Aphris," asked Kamchak, "why the barbarian—though slave—is not clad Kajir, why she does not wear ring, brand and collar?" "Why?" asked Aphris, frightened.	10
11	152	"So that there will be one higher than you in the wagon," said Kamchak.	10
11	153	I had wondered why Kamchak had not treated Elizabeth Cardwell as any other enslaved wench of Tuchuks.	10
11	154	"For," said Kamchak, "among your other tasks, my dear, you will perform for this barbarian the duties of a female serving slave".	10
11	157	"Not I—not Aphris of Turia!" "You," said Kamchak.	10
11	158	"A serving slave to a barbarian!" "Yes," said Kamchak.	10
11	160	"Yes," roared Kamchak, throwing back his head and guffawing, "Aphris of Turia, in my wagon, will be a barbarian's serving slave!" The girl's fists were clenched.	10

Book 20. (2 results) Players of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
11	84	"May I present Tarl, he of the Plains of Turia, he of the Lands of the Wagon Peoples, master of the mystic quivas, the famed saddle knives of the southern barbarians, come to us at great expense and in spite of many perils by special arrangement with Kamchak, Ubar San of the Wagon Peoples!" "That's ...	10
11	86	I supposed that if Kamchak had known his name was being used in this fashion, and mispronounced at that, and Boots was within his grasp he might have, as a joke, for Kamchak was fond of jokes, had Boots put in a sack and put out in front of the bosk, curious to see if they would move in that directi...	10