No Paga Diaries This Week.

 Arizona Wanderer was away hiking the Grand Canyon. Paga Diaries Episodes will resume next week.

Until then, catch up on  some past episodes, such as Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba (4) which dropped on an off-day, or Flashing Eyes by Peony D. Beckside.

 

Flashing Eyes

Peony D Beckside

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

I’m in love!  Or is it lust.  The woman has just moved off, accompanied by her retinue of guards and slaves.  Professionally, I can price to the tarsk-bit[1], the value of the four female slaves chained, kneeling at the corner of her litter and the eight chained slaves supporting it.  I am a slaver, by trade.  The woman is wealthy, and by extension influential.  Either that or she is the wife or daughter of someone who is.

Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba (4)

 

Previously in Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba

As Longinus was taking his leave, Scipio pointed to Beaker.

“She has been inopportune again, trying to beg, with hips, not her mouth for lessons, which for now, I have denied. Chain her hand and foot in the pens tonight, so she learns that she is only to move when it is pleasing to me”

The one-legged ex-pirate, Longinus of Argentum, led the disgraced kajira, Beaker, from the room, followed by Phidias and Myron, the apprentices of Atticus of Ar.

Scipio Metellus Slaver of Ko-ro-ba (3)

 

(Image courtesy The Palatine)

Previously in Scipio Metellus, Slaver of Ko-ro-ba

Scipio Metellus shook his head at the amount of dishonesty in the world. Atticus continued.

The Paga Diaries (27)

 

27.  Lady Filomena

“Next prisoner please,” the Magistrate said to the Prosecutor.
I watched as the city guardsmen went to the two women still locked in the coffle. They removed the ankle shackle from the Free Woman who had plush but dirty slippers on her feet.  She wore a veil covering her face and robes concealing her figure.  The robe had a hood that covered her hair.  The handcuffs were removed from her hands, which were behind her back.  The other woman wore a light tunic, was barefoot, and wore a collar, clearly a slave. The coffle shackle was removed from her ankle but her hands remained braceleted behind her back. They were brought before Julian Lepidus, the Magistrate.

Verna's Journey (6)

 

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 Six: The Games.

“Welcome, Verna!  Had a good look at my city?”
“Yes, Ubar.”
“And what do you make of it?”
“It’s big, noisy, bustling and brash.  There are so many people!  I wonder how one keeps track of them all.  Your city is magnificent!  But it’s also tawdry.  Cheap and tacky behind the main streets.”
Marlenus laughs.