"More real than the law is the heart"
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The Brand:

I had doubt that it would be the Tahari brand which is white hot, would be pressed into the thigh of the new slave, marking her thenceforth as merchandise. The contact surface of the iron would br formrd into the Taharic character"kef", which, in Taharic, is inital letter of the expression "Kajira", the most common expression i a Gorean for a female slave.

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