"John Norman - Gor 18 - Blood Brothers of Gor" - читать интересную книгу автора (Norman John)

Grung had brought a coffle of white slave girls into the Barrens with him,
as pack animals and trade goods. He had also acquired two prisoners, two
former enemies of his, Max and Kyle Hobart, in effect as gifts from Dust Legs.
The Sleen took two of his girls, Ginger and Evelyn, former tavern girls from
the town of Kailiauk, near the Ihanke, and the Hobarts, from him. Four other
girls were led away from him naked and bound, their necks in tethers, by a
Yellow-Knife warrior.
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These were two American girls, Lois and Inez, an English girl, named
Priscilla, and a short, dark-haired French girl, named Corinne.
The Kaiila wre mostly members of the All Comrades, a warrior society, like
the Sleen Soldiers, of the Isbu Kaiila. They were under the command of Canka,
Cuwignaka's brother. One other was with the party, too, an older, warrior,
Kahintokapa, One-Who-Walks-Before, of the prestigious Yellow-Kaiila Riders. He
was of the Casmu, or Sand, band.
Grunt's prize on the coffle, a beautiful red-haired girl, a former
debutante from Pennsylvania, once Miss Millicent Aubry-Wells, was selected out
by Canka as personal slave, one to run at the left flank of his own kaiila and
wear her leather, beaded collar, placed on her by his command, for him alone.
Grunt's last slave, the dark-haired beauty, Wasnapohdi, or Pimples, whome he
had acquired in trade for three hatchets from Dust Legs, he was permitted to
keep. This is probably because Canka truly bore us no ill will. Indeed, he was
probably pleased, as I now understand, that we had freed Cuwignaka. He may
also have permitted Grunt to keep Wasnapohdi, of course, because she was
conversant in Kaiila. He would have respected her for that.
"Slave," said Hci, regarding me, scornfully.
I did not meet his eyes. It was I, of course, who had actually freed
Cuwignaka. It had been my knife which had cut the thongs. This was something
which Canka, as Blotanhunka, or war-party leader, of the All Comrades, had, of
course, not been able to overlook. Regardless of is own feelings in the matter
or even, possibly, of his own intentions with respect to the future, such an
act could not be allowed to pass unnoticed. A prisoner of the Kaiila, one duly
dealt with, so to speak, had been freed. There was a payment to be made. I, on
foot, had looked at the mounted warriors, the Kaiila left then in place. There
were some seventeen of them, including Canka. Each was an All Comrade; each
was skilled; all had counted coup.
"I am ready to fight," I had said.
"Do not be a fool," had said Grunt.
"I am read," I had said to Canka.
"There is an alternative," had said Grunt. "Can't you see? He is waiting."
"What?" I asked.
"The collar," said Grunt.
"Never," I said.
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"Please, Tatnkasa," had said Canka. This was what he had called me, when he
had learned that I was willing to fight with his men, no quarter given or