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| zoey_Wyn Quote | Reply | | Brands (C & D's) posted on: 12/6/2006 1:33:33 AM Chemical Brand - "What is the message I carry?" I asked. "I do not know," she said. "Any girl," I said, "might have carried this message." "Any piece of suitable slave flesh," said the Lady Elicia. "Then why was I chosen?" I asked. She laughed. "At the college," she said, "you competed with me, you challenged me, you dared to set yourself up as a rival to me. It was then that I determined, you lovely, meaningless little fool, that I would have you as my serving slave." "What is to be done with me?" I asked. "In the morning," she said, "you will be appropriately identified and transmitted as a naked slave by tarn to the port of Schendi, whence, by slave ship, you will be transported to the island of Cos." "Identified?" I asked. "Slave ship?" "A small chemical brand," she said, "which you will wear in your flesh, something by which our agents in Cos will recognize you." "Chemical brand?" I said. "It will remain invisible until the proper reagent is applied," she said. "Can it be removed?" I asked. "Yes," she said, "but you cannot remove it. It requires the proper combination of chemicals." "Will it be removed?" I asked. "Of course," she said, "after it has done its work, identifying you for our agents. It would be foolish to leave it fixed in your body, would it not, to arouse the puzzlement of the curious, perhaps even to identify you as our message girl to the agents of the enemy?" "Yes, Mistress," I said. She blew foam from her hand, watching the bubbles drift in the air. "The slave ship," she said, "will not be pleasant." "What will be done to me in Cos?" I asked. "You will be placed in the Chatka and Curla, a paga tavern," she said. "And from there our agents will make their contact." "Will I understand the message?" I asked. "No," she said. "You will not understand it. You will only deliver it." "And," I asked, "when the message is delivered?" "Then," she said, "you will be returned to me." "And then?" I asked. "Then," she said, leaning back in the sunken bath, luxuriating in the warm, foamy water, "you will begin your life as my serving slave, Judy." "Yes, Lady Elicia, my mistress," I said. SLAVE GIRL OF GOR; 11; Pages 315-316 Chain and Claw - Incidentally, there are many brands on Gor. Two that almost never occur on Gor, by the way, are those of the moons and collar, and of the chain and claw. The first of these commonly occurs in certain of the Gorean enclaves on Earth, which serve as headquarters for agents of Priest-Kings; the second tends to occur in the lairs of Kurii agents on Earth; the first brand consists of a locked collar and, ascending diagonally above it, extending to the right, three quarter moons; this brand indicates the girl is subject to Gorean discipline; the chain-and-claw brand signifies, of course, slavery and subjection within the compass of the Kur yoke. It is apparently difficult to recruit Goreans for service on Earth, either for Priest-Kings or Kurii. Accordingly, usually native Earthlings are used. Glandularly sufficient men, strong, lustful, and vital, without their slave girls, would find Earth a very dismal place, a miserable and unhappy sexual desert. Strong men simply need women. This will never be understood by weak men. A strong man needs a woman at his feet, who is truly his. Anything else is less than his fulfillment. When a man has once eaten of the meat of gods he will never again chew on the straw of fools. EXPLORERS OF GOR-, 13; Page 12 Delka - “There appears to be only one mark on the body of each of these fellows,” said one of the guardsmen, who had been examining the bodies. “Warriors,” said another of the guardsmen. “I do not even know if they realized what was among them,” said the merchant. “It seems to have been professionally done,” said the captain. “Yes, Captain,” said one of the men. “Whose work could it be?” asked the captain. “Surely there is little doubt about the matter,” said another of the guardsmen. The captain regarded the guardsmen. “See, Captain?” asked the guardsmen. He rolled one of the bodies to its back. On the chest was a bloody triangle, the “delka.” That is the fourth letter in the Gorean alphabet, and formed identically to the fourth letter of the Greek alphabet, the ‘delta’, to which letter it doubtless owes its origin. In Gorean, the delta of a river is referred to as its, “delka.” The reasoning here is the same as in Greek, and, derivatively, in English, namely the resemblance of a delta region to a cartographical triangle. MAGICIANS OF GOR-, 25; Page 176 Dina - I did not understand the purpose for which the iron was being heated. It was clearly a marking, or branding, iron. Yet there was no animal in the camp to be marked. I had expected one to be brought in, perhaps one which had been somewhere acquired, but none was brought in. I then conjectured that one of the men, perhaps my captor, since it was be who had had me tend the brazier, wished to mark something which he owned, imprinting in it an identificatory design, perhaps a harness or belt, or the leather of a brass-hooped shield. It seemed to me a sensible idea. I had seen the design at the tip of the iron. It was a small flower, stylized; it was circular, about an inch and a half in diameter; it was not unlike a small rose; it was incredibly lovely and delicate. I thought the design was very beautiful; I certainly would not have minded marking something I owned with it. The only reservation I had pertaining to the design was that I thought it might be a bit too delicate and lovely, like a lovely rose, to appropriately mark goods of a gross masculine nature, such as, say, harnesses or shields. It seemed it might, considering its resemblance to a rose, much more appropriately mark something feminine. SLAVE GIRL OF GOR-, 11; Page 52 |