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in her caste rights."
                "I do not believe you," she said.
                "Do you not care for me," I asked, "Talena."
                She pulled the riobes down from her throat. " I wear a collar," she said. I saw the simple, circular, gray collar, the collar of the house of Samos, locked around her throat.
                "What is her price?" I asked Samos.
                "I paid ten pieces of gold for her," said Samos.
                She seemed startled that she had sold for so small a sum. Yet, for a girl, late in the season, high on the coast of Thassa, it was a marvelous price. Doubtless she had obtained it only because she was so beautiful. Yet, to be sure, it was less than she would have brought if expertly displayed on the block in Turia or Ar, or Ko-ro-ba, or Tharna, or Port Kar.
                "I will give you fifteen," I said.
                "Very well," said Samos.
                With my right hand I reached into the pouch at my belt and drew out the coins.
                I handed them to Samos.
                "Free her," I said.
                Samos, with a general key, one used for many of the gray collars, unlocked the band of steel which encircled her lovely throat.
                "Am I truly free?" she asked.
                "Yes." I said.
                "I should have brought a thousand of gold," she said. "As daughter of Marlenus of Ar my companion price might be a thousand tarns, five thousand tharlarion!"
                "You are no longer the daughter of Marlenus of Ar," I told her.
                "You are a liar," she said. She looked at me contemptuously.
                "With you permission," said Samos, " I shall withdraw.
                "Stay," said I, "Samos."
                "Very well," said he.
                "Long ago," said I, "Talena, we cared for each other. We were companions."
                "Irt was a foolish girl, who cared for you," said talena. " I am now a waoman."
                "You no longer care for me?" I asked.
                She looked at me. "I am free," she said. "I can speak what I wish. Look at yourself! You cannot even walk. You cannot even move your left arm! You are a cripple, a cripple! You make me ill! Do you think that one such as I, the daughter of Marlenus of Ar, could care for such a thing? Look upon me. I am beautiful, Look upon yourself. You are a cripple. Care for you? You are a fool, a fool!"
                "Yes," I said bitterly, " I am a fool."
                She turned away from me, robes swirling. Then she turned and faced me. Slave!" she sneered.
                " I do not understand," I said.
                " I took the liberty," said Samos, " though at the time I did not know of your injuries, your paralysis, to inform her of what occured in the delta of the Vosk."
                My right hand clenched. I was furious.
                "I am sorry," said Samos.
                'It is no secret," I said. "It is known to many."
                "It is a wonder that any man will follow you!" cried Talena. " You betrayed your codes! You are a coward! A fool! You are not worthy of me! That you dare ask me if I could care for such as you, is to me, a free woman an insult! You chose slavery to death!"
                "why did you tell her of the delta of the Vosk?" I asked Samos.
                "So that if there might have been love between you, it would no longer exist," said Samos.
                "You are cruel," I said.
                "Truth is cruel," said Samos. "She would have to know sooner or later."
                "Why did you tell her?" I asked.
                "That she might not care for you and lure you from the