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r waist.
"You should take advantage of your chance to sleep. We travel at
first light." he said softly. struggled against him when he
tried to lower 's back to the bed, and 's voice escaped in an
enraged exclamation that was almost a growl. He paused briefly, then
laughed loudly at 's efforts to extricate herself from his grasp;
he allowed 's to play this little game for several minutes before
she acquiesced, reluctantly, to his greater strength.
was young, he noted, and would, indeed, have made an excellent
catch for the slave market. He, of course, had no use for gold or
baubles -- he took what he wanted from passers-by who wandered onto
his territory -- and he had no access to the human world; but he
pictured to himself the intrinsic value this pretty little animal
with the kitten-snarls must have in the eyes of 's kind. Kalimenos
indulged his sexual pleasures with random human females who were
luckless enough to cross his path, but he was careful to release them
undamaged; and he never hunted near his home, though he kept lodges
like this one throughout the vast area surrounding his own grounds.
When he retrieved this woman from the water he had thought to take
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