Friday, 31 October 2025

Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba (1)

 


(catch me, by Gorean Art

The little stream had been swollen into a river by spring runoff and sudden torrential rains in the surrounding hills. There was no crossing either by the ford or the small ferry until the flooding passed, which locals informed travellers would be in about three days.

As a result, the caravan of Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba was camped close to those of other travellers along the banks of the swiftly running water. The water was brown with soil washed down from the hills, and very cold due to the amount of spring runoff. Scipio Metellus and his five wagons were camped at a little distance from the other travellers. Scipio Metellus was an experienced traveller and had no intention of camping near a riverbank that might be carried away by a surge of water. Nor would he be the first to cross the stream when the water receded. When possible, the slaver was a careful man, which often deceived people who judged by surface appearances.

Sunday, 26 October 2025

Verna's Journey (3) The Paga Tavern

 

Verna’s Journey
Pauline Anne Armitage

With acknowledgement, and thanks to John Norman for the creation of his world of “Gor”, in which this story is set.

 

 


Chapter Three: The Paga Tavern.

It is dark when we arrive at the caravanserai.  We board the Tarns at the Tarn-cot.  Arminias throws a coin to the keeper.
“Feed the birds!”
The keeper acknowledges.  We find a bunk-house and drop our belongings there.  Arminias has paid extra for the three of us to have a small private room capable of housing four people.  I do not need privacy.  I am used to being seen naked, by other Panther-Girls, by men or at least enslaved men.  Callius and Arminias, knowing that I am the Ubara, I know that they will not lust after me or at least not openly.  On Gor, free women seem to need considerable privacy and modesty.  I though do not give such matters any thought.

Friday, 24 October 2025

Tales of Drysdale House (3) Veronika

 


Narrative of Kajira Juli, formerly Miss Julie Chen BA of San Francisco

The four she-urts knelt in a row in the Grand Salon of Drysdale House, my master’s San Francisco residence. They were waiting, more or less patiently to be paid. It was the last day my Master, through the housekeeper, Mrs Magruder, would be employing Kampus Kleaners to bring the state of the house, really a mansion, to one that she considered worthy of my Master’s stature. Kampus Kleaners did not know that these she-urts would be here. After the first two days, Mrs Magruder had been employing some of the girls directly, rather than through Kampus Kleaners, ‘providers of naughty maids and naked cleaners’.

Tuesday, 21 October 2025

Paga Diaries (24) by Arizona Traveller

 (The first twenty chapters are hosted at Emma of Gor This continues the story of Rykart, a wanderer on Gor who had arrived from Earth. Stories by Tracker is pleased to host this continuation of the story.)



24. Dancing Kajirae

After the extravagant banquet meal, Mirus announced that the evening’s entertainment would continue with dancing.  Everyone gathered near the fire, close to the band in the same spot that the wet t-shirt contest had been held.  We all sat on the ground and watched the dancers.  Even the slaves sat and watched, except for Lenta and another slave who were kept busy serving drinks to everyone.

There were three dancers who took turns, each one performing a dance and then another one would start a new one.  The dancers were mostly nude and had bells attached to their ankles.  Some of the dancers used silk accessories to draw attention to their bodies and movements.  Trem and I sat together and enjoyed the dances, the firelight on the dancers and the accompanying music, created a very erotic atmosphere.  Trem told me the names of the dances after they were finished, the first being the Collar Dance and the second was the Contrition Dance.  During the third dance, Lina came and knelt in front of me, offering a paga.  I finished the paga I already had and took the paga from the lovely Lina.

“May I watch the dances with you Master?” she asked.

“Yes,” I said, noticing that many of the other slaves were sitting very close to and sometimes leaning into the guests, lounging.   The three Gorean moons were bright tonight, and as we watched the dancers, I kept looking at Lina, her blond hair was golden in the light of the fire and the shadows accentuated her lovely curves.  I put my arm around her bare shoulder, bringing her in close.



Rimici stepped out after the third dance concluded, her fine curves and perfect body motionless, she stood crossed leg, poised as a pirouette.  She was naked except for her collar and belled ankles.  The band began to play rhythmic, mysterious music.  Rimici looked to the sky and began to dance quickly.  She moved well and her motions were very erotic.  She stomped her feet to the rhythms, the bells on her ankles ringing, accentuating her steps.

Lina, put her arms around my right arm, holding it. 

Rimici dropped to her knees and danced on them, gyrating her hips.  She then went down to the grass on her back, to her sides, again to her knees, then prone, rolling over supine, constantly moving her limbs, writhing as though in frustration.  She struck her hands, now clenched fists, on the ground, then scratched at the ground, pulling up grass in frustration.  She shook her head, scattering her long black hair in all directions.  She kicked her heels against the ground as a child would, having a tantrum.

The music became slower, entering a melodic phase, and her dancing became less physical and frantic.  Her dancing was now poignant, graceful.  She went to her knees and crawled to her right, lifting her head, reaching out and seemed to touch something, feeling it out, a wall perhaps.  She continued to move gracefully using her hands to search in pantomime. She appeared to encounter a barrier or confining wall, her hands reaching up, and around, searching, exploring. Then she crawled to the left, once again feeling out the wall, tracing the location.

“She is dancing the Sa-eela, Master!” Lina whispered to me excitedly.

Rimici stood up and faced the crowd, on tip toes, attempting to peer through an opening.  She yelled through this opening, on a door perhaps.  She waited, and nothing there, she went to the ground, curled into a ball and began to weep softly in her loneliness.



The music changes again and her head lifts up, a hand went to her ear, cupping it as though she hears something.  She stands up, steps backwards, stopped by a back wall as though in a cell and puts her palms against the wall.  She holds her chin up for a moment, disdainfully, then she turns away as if ignoring someone, perhaps a man has entered the cell.  She remains still and aloof, feigning disdain for the man.  She then becomes startled as if the man has turned away, as if to leave the cell.  She looks to the man, and throws herself to the grass on her belly, her arms extended performing obeisance, her fingers outstretched, longing to touch.  She lifts her head and calls out, “Master?”  And then, “Please Master!”

She then kneels swiftly in nadu, as a pleasure slave with her knees spread wide and her palms on her thighs, upturned.  She is stunning in this position, a perfect example of posture and form! 

“Ohh!” Lina exclaimed quietly beside me, clutching my arm tight, her breath quickening.

Rimini’s right shoulder suddenly jerks twice, as if she has been struck with a whip.  She nods her head in affirmation.  She then stands abruptly as if pulled up.  She is turned, and her wrists brought together behind her back.  She grimaces as if they are being bound together tightly, cruelly.  She bends over at the waist, her head moves to the side as if a master has her hair, controlling her.  She then walks, taking small steps, bent over, her head still to the side as if being led somewhere, leaving the cell.  She makes a slight turn before stopping.  She then appears to be thrown to the ground, landing on her side, her hands still held behind her back.  She looked at the audience from the ground as if seeing us for the first time.  The music became loud, dramatic and profound, as she presented herself as a stark, pitiful, humbled slave, laying before men, waiting for their attention.

She moves off of her side and kneels, putting her head to the ground as if commanded and raises up her bound wrists, high behind her back.  She remains like this for a moment and then her hands came apart, unbound.

She then appears to prepare herself, smoothing her hair, bringing attention to her features, holding her breasts and offering them, presenting her rear, attempting to allure and arouse the master.  The pace of the music quickens, drums pounding, as the attempt of the neglected slave to call attention to herself becomes desperate and wild.

At the climax of dance, Rimici crawled over to Mirus.  There was fine sheen of sweat on her body gleaming in the firelight.  She presented herself as a helpless, desperate, sensual, piteous slave, needful with desire, she danced on her knees with a final flourish before her master, enticing him to accept her, exposed, willing and submissive to his will and approval.  In a final gesture, she flung herself on to her back, lifting her hips invitingly to him, her breasts heaving with exertion, motioning with her arms, beckoning his approach and acceptance of her offering.

A thunderous applause erupted from the audience, many of the men standing and striking their chests, crying out praises.  As I stood up to applaud and cheer, I looked at Lina, who was smiling, cheering, tears in her eyes.  Mirus stood up, stepped toward Rimici and swooped her up, placing her over his left shoulder.  He carried her to the nearest white tent and entered it as the applause continued.

I was spellbound by the magnificent performance.  I had never seen such a dance, the talent, creativity, and the expression of raw emotion was exquisite and overwhelming.  For the third time this evening, I had become aroused and was in need.

I sat back down next to Lina.  She looked at me eagerly, her teary eyes wide and full of expression. 

“Master, may I speak?”

“Yes,” I said.

“Master, am I still appealing to you?”

“Yes, very much,” I replied.

“Do you desire me, Master?”

“Yes, yes,” I stuttered.

“Master, you have not taken me to the furs tonight.”  I didn’t know what to say, she was very beautiful in the firelight under the moons and I desired her greatly.  Did she know that I had already been in the furs with Tafa?  Had any of the guests put Lina to use this evening?  Was her slave heat boiling over from Mirus’s lascivious display of her earlier, the wet t-shirt contest and then the dances, especially the last one by Rimici?  Had her slave heat become excruciating and unbearable?

“Master?” she asked, frustrated by my silence; my mind was racing, another slave had begun to dance and I looked briefly, distracted.

“Have I displeased you, Master?”

“No, of course not,” I finally answered.

“I beg use Master. Please take Lina to the furs Master!” she begged.

Sunday, 19 October 2025

Verna's Journey (2) The Tarncot

 Verna’s Journey

Pauline Anne Armitage

With acknowledgement, and thanks to John Norman for the creation of his world of “Gor”, in which this story is set.

Chapter Two  The Tarncot

I awake feeling bleary-eyed.  I stagger to my feet.  Vika lies on the floor sleeping peaceably.  I reach for the twin triangles of tabuk[1] hide joined at each point and step into it, so as to cover my lower torso.  I tighten the top at my waist with the adjusting thong.  Vika stirs.  Realising that I’m awake and standing over her, she scurries to bow her head before me in obeisance.

“Ten thousand pardons, Ubara.  I slept while you were awake!”

“Silence Vika.  My head hurts from too much wine.  Please, just give me my clothes.”

Vika rises and helps me into my boots and jerkin.  She’s done a good job.  My garments have not been this soft ever, not even when the hides were newly cured.  I should thank her, but I don’t really feel too well.  Besides she’s a slave.  Thanks are not expected by her.  I retrieve my weapons and head off seeking some verr[2] milk to quench a parched throat.  I manage a bowl of thick sullage[3] along with the milk.  I begin to ‘come round’.  I’m still not at my best when  Callius and Arminias enter the hall.  They have already eaten.

“If you are ready, Ubara?  It’s time for you to learn to fly a Tarn.”

I’m not, but I can’t really put this off.  Arminias’ voice has the tone of an executioner.  I get up and follow the two of them to the Tarn cot.  On the way, we pass the store of the quartermaster.  He finds me fur-lined riding-leathers and boots.  Such are necessary as it is colder in the sky than at the ground.  It gets colder the higher one goes.  The leathers and boots are just a bit too big, but they are the smallest he has.  When I get to Ar, I’ll have some made to fit.

 

Arminius greets the tarn-keeper.  The tarn-keeper. has an air about him, of ‘Why am I bothering’.  He just knows that a tarn is going to kill me today.  He’s just going through the motions, giving the barest minimum of information.  He leads us to a bench over which is thrown a tarn saddle and throat strap.

“You mount with the mounting ladder...”

The tarn-keeper. indicates.

“You make sure that you fasten the safety belts so that you can’t fall off.”

The tarn-keeper. goes to the throat strap.

“This fastens round the Tarn’s neck,  The six straps or reins are numbered clockwise, one-strap being at the top.  To control direction you pull on the strap or straps closest to the direction you wish to go.  One-strap for up, two and three for right, five and six for left. Four to go down or land.  To slow the tarn down, you pull on all the straps equally.  A quick flick of all the straps together tell the tarn to speed up.  Alternatively you can use the Tarn goad to encourage a faster pace.”

The tarn-keeper. takes just such a device from his belt.

“Hold out your hand.”

I do so.  He slaps the goad into my hand pressing the activation button.  There are sparks and a searing pain in my hand.

“The Tarn-goad is not a weapon or a toy.  Treat it with respect!”

Feeling is coming back into my hand.

“If you want the bird to hunt for food, whether you are in the saddle or not, use the word ‘Tabuk’”

I nod.

“This is a Tarn-whistle.  Each Tarn responds only to the tone of its own whistle.  You summon the Tarn with the whistle.  Don’t lose the whistle.  Lose the whistle and effectively you lose your bird!  You’ll get yours when a suitable Tarn is allocated..  The Tarn can hear the whistle up to ten pasangs[4] away.  That’s about it really.  Let’s find you a Tarn.”

I resolve to thread the whistle onto the thong that holds the Ubara signet.

We stand on the floor of the Tarn cot by the big open flight-exit, looking up at the birds.  Most are quiet, but there’s a big red-plumed one fluttering its wings and squawking on a perch high up and back.  Arminias talks to the tarn-keeper.

“Do you have something relatively safe and docile…?”

“No!”

I surprise myself!  I know!  I just know which bird I want!

“I’ll take that one.”

I point up at the big red fractious Tarn.  The tarn-keeper is horrified.

“Lady!…”

He doesn’t know that I’m nominally the Ubara.

“...The big red female is barely trained.  It’ll kill you!  It’s badly injured one keeper who tried to saddle it!  It’s unstable.  It won’t settle down!”

“Let it kill me!  As I said to the Commander, I’m not afraid of death.”

I hear him mutter to himself.  I think his comment is ‘mad fool!’

“So be it, Lady.  Your funeral...”

The tarn-keeper. calls an order to a subordinate.  The perch is unhooked from the cot wall and lowered with a pulley arrangement so that it drops onto a cart.  The bird on its cart is pushed towards us.  It’s still beating its wings and squawking.  I find the bird to be beautiful.  If I am to die, let it be at the beak of such a bird as this!  I am told later that to Tarnsmen, death by Tarn is not considered a dishonourable death.  I call to the second keeper, the one who’d brought the bird down.

“Free her!”

The man unhooks the bird’s tether.

I step forward.  I hear Arminias and the tarn-keeper. step back as fast as they can.  I hear the word ‘Crazy!’  I look the Tarn in the eye.

“Greetings Sister of the Wind!  Let us be one!  Let us ride the wind together!”

The bird leaps forward!  It stops just short of me.  Its beak only inches from my face.  It opens its beak and issues a scream that temporarily deafens me.  I feel the wind thrust from its mighty lungs and drops of spittle sprinkle my face.  I make no attempt to move.  I do not flinch in the slightest, not out of belligerence, but because somehow I know that the bird will not harm me.  I am its sister, its counterpart, its other half.  How I know this I don’t know  The long scream ends.  The Tarn steps back in puzzlement.  There’s another look in its eye now.  Recognition.

“Come Sister!  Let us feel the wind beneath our wings.  Let us soar into the sky!”

I reach for the saddle and throat strap.  I climb the saddling block on the cart.  Sister of the Wind’ perches quietly and still as I fasten the saddle and controlling straps.  I hear from behind me awed voices.  ‘She’s a Tarnsman!’  ‘A woman Tarnsman!’  ‘A Tarnswoman!’  ‘I never thought I’d see the day!’.  I am satisfied that the harnessing is secure and not harming the Tarn.  I turn to the tarn-keeper.

“Whistle!”

He steps forward his jaw hanging slackly.  He presses the Tarn-whistle and a goad into my hand.  I fasten the whistle securely into a pocket of my riding leathers for now, and the goad to my wrist by its leather loop.  I’ve no intention of ever using the goad unless I have to.  This Tarn is too precious for such brutality!  I lead the Tarn to the edge of the platform.  I climb the ladder to the saddle and strap myself into the saddle.

“Fly, my Sister!  Fly!”

I pull on the one-strap.  We are in the air.  My stomach with the remains of last night’s wine feels left behind on the platform.  A strange feeling!  My stomach catches up to me.  I am in ecstasy.  I am Mistress of the World!  Up here, it’s like I’m a Goddess.  I climb higher still.

Arminias having collected his own Tarn joins me.  He shouts out to me.

“Beware of hubris!  You are not a Goddess!  Control the Tarn!  Keep your head and your wits under control!  Daydreaming is dangerous to you and the Tarn.”

How does he know what I am feeling?  Was his first flight so gorgeous?  Did he feel like a God on his first flight?  I wake up to reality and answer.

“Got your point, Arminias!”

“Now follow me.  Do what I do, make your Tarn conform to what mine is doing.”

Arminias leads me through a series of manoeuvres designed to test and increase my skill at controlling the Tarn.  We fly together for an hour or more before Arminias leads us back to the Tarn cot.  I land the Tarn and encourage it to it’s previous perch.  Sister of the Wind is no loner fractious.  Arminias approaches, a huge grin on his face.  I see beyond him Grippus and Callius with huge smiles also.  Arminias grabs me and hugs me.  I’m amazed that I let him get so close without drawing my knife!  The hug is not one of desire, but of fraternal greeting.  He releases me.

“See that your Tarn is fed.  Get some food.  Do what you need to.  We leave for Ar, in an Ahn.”

There is much cheering and breast-thump salutes as we leave the cot.  Even the few slaves outdoors shriek with admiration.

At the 11th Ahn[5] Arminias, Callius and I are ready.  Our Tarns carry saddlebags with our limited belongings in them.  Our weapons are strapped to the saddle where we can easily get them in case we need them.  The rest of the garrison, or so it seems is there to see us off.  Grippus steps forward.

“Fly with the wind, Ubara.  When you return, call and visit.”

“We cannot see where time takes us, but if I’m back this way, then yes.  I’ve still get lots of your wine to drink!”

Grippus snorts a laugh.  The three of us climb on our Tarns and rise off the platform.  Callius leads.  Apparently he’s more familiar with the route than Arminias.



[1]              A  single-horned antelope

[2]              A kind of sheep or goat

[3]              A savoury soup mostly based on suls.

[4]              1 pasang equals about 0.7 of a mile.  Ten pasangs therefore equals about 7 miles.

[5]              About noon

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