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 Slave Training CostHere are relevant references from the Books where the Cost of Slave Training is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban Cost Little Cost Money Excellent Investment
Her lessons, which had been intensive, once we had arrived at the Oasis of Nine Wells, had cost little, and had, in my opinion, much increased her value, doubling or tripling it. The modest cost of the lessons had been, in my opinion, an excellent investment.
I was pleased with how well, in the past months, Elizabeth had done with the language. 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. Ho-Tu was fond of the music of the kalika, a six-stringed, plucked instrument, with a hemispheric sound box and long neck. Sura, I knew, played the instrument. Elizabeth, Virginia and Phyllis had been shown its rudiments, as well as something about the lyre, but they had not been expected to become proficient, nor were they given the time to become so; if their master, at a later date, after their sale, wished his girls to possess these particular attributes, which are seldom involved in the training of slave girls, he himself could pay for their instruction; the time of the girls, I noted, was rather fully occupied, without spending hours a day on music. "You," said Kamchak, glaring at Elizabeth, "you stupid little barbarian - you cannot even dance!" Elizabeth looked down, confused, rather shamed. It was true, what Kamchak had said. The voice of Aphris was timid and quiet. "I can't either," she said. "What!" howled Kamchak. "No," cried Aphris, "I never learned!" "Kaiila feed!" cried Kamchak. "I'm sorry," said Aphris, now a bit irritated, "I just never planned on becoming a slave." "You should have learned anyway," cried the disappointed Kamchak. "Nonsense," said Aphris. "It will cost money," grumbled Kamchak, "but you will learn. I will have you taught." "I am sorry, noble patrons," said Ho-Tosk. "Daphne, though beautiful, is not a dancer. Blame the house. We have not paid to have her so trained. But her alcove skills, as doubtless some of you know, are considerable." Frightened, Miss Blake-Allen straightened her back, and lifted her head. She knelt back on her heels, knees wide, hands on her thighs. It was the position of the Pleasure Slave. I had taught her the position. It is one of the first things a good-looking woman, fallen slave, is taught on Gor. "I wish," I said, "to board her, and purchase her some training." "We cage a wench for a copper tarsk per day," he said. "Training is extra, but, I think, reasonable." "She does not speak Gorean," I told him. He smiled. "She will learn swiftly," he said. Then the officer and I discussed details of training. He would include in her training the regime of the stimulation cage. For the first five nights, following my recommendation, she would wear the rope harness. After that it would be used, if necessary, for discipline. "Let her, however," I said, "meet the eyes of her trainer, and of other males. I do not wish her to become the love slave of the first man into whose eyes she is permitted to gaze." "I understand," said the man. "I am not selling you," I said. "These are the public pens of Tor. You are here for boarding and training. You will begin to learn Gorean. You will learn as a child learns, without the benefit of translation. You will learn swiftly. You will also be exercised and receive slave instruction." "Slave instruction?" she asked. "Yes," I said. "Is this clear, Alyena?" "Yes, Master," she whispered. "If you are uncooperative, or slow in your lessons, you may be starved or beaten - lashed - you understand?"
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