"Master, ya eat like a pig sumtimes." Nadine said and skipped quickly out of the way of his swat. She giggled and set her tray down on the counter and handed him another piece of meat which he threw on his plate.

"I don't know how you get away with talking to him like that." Lyria said shakin her head but Nadine just winked at her.

"She is lucky alright, if I was quicker she would learn to respect me more." Proculus growled as he continued eating.

"i ainna fraid of im." she said in her thick accent. She was french and had learned Gorean on a spaceship in three days at the hands of an excited and inexperienced slaver name Brutin. Proculus looked up at her and made ready to charge her with a yell but she just giggled and danced behind a table. She was quick and lithe, her talents of a thief traded for dancing lessons and then returned to the art of stealing.

"I have a new tidbit." Penelope said and everyone looked over while Proculus did his best to ignore it and Lyria moved in closer. "I started talking about this this morning but the girl in question came in for her morning cocoa and Nadine was not here yet." Penelope said as she warmed up to her story and Nadine walked a pitcher of paga over to Proculus, pouring most of it all at once into the mug so it would fill faster, but unable to get out of the way of his return swat she yelped and rubbed as she darted out of his reach.

"He got you that time." Cookie commented with a grin while Proculus went back to breakfast as if nothing had happened. Nadine set the pitcher back down and rubbed at her butt as she padded closer to the girls.

"The guards at the front gate said that they say Gunther throw Alaemnah over his shoulder and parade her between the compound and the Kurii." Penelope informed them and the girls squealed and started in on questions for more detail. Nadine froze up and thought about that, picturing her over his shoulder.

"It must have been so embarrassing." Elerysa commented with her hand to her mouth. "Isn't that a way for a man to possess as woman as a slave on Gor?" She asked and the girls looked at Nadine who looked down at the floor. She could feel the thrill at the news but somehow it bothered her that they were talking about Alaemnah like that. Yet she couldn't wait to tease her about the information herself. She was so confused!

Penelope could tell Nadine wasn't going to answer so she smiled. "Well, anyway, word is that you could see right up her skirt and she could feel the breeze and every time she tried to tuck her skirt for modesty he slapped her hand!" The girls all squealed in unison and Nadine felt her cheeks flame, shamed and elated at the same time.

"I bet she was mortified!" Cookie started in, coming to Alae's defense but the others giggled and ribbed her.

"The way those two have been going at it? She has more experience than half of us!" Lyria commented and Nadine stepped forward into their midst.

"alrite ya busy bodies...off ta work wit ya an not a lick of dis until tamorrow. im plannin on havin a lil talk ta her bout dis an i dun wan it spoiled by idle gossip." Nadine said and the girls broke up to go towards their next set of chores.

She herself headed for the baths so she could get cleaned up, Cookie in tow so they could do their nightly duties in the Kurii. Nadine kept her mouth shut for the entire bath and most of the walk up to the marketplace.

But she wasn't going to stay that way for long.