The price of victory- - Thieves World 13 by Robert Asprin & Lynn Abbey

Author:Robert Asprin & Lynn Abbey [Asprin, Robert]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Fantasy fiction; American, Fantastic fiction; American
Publisher: Guild America Books
Published: 1989-08-15T07:00:00+00:00

The only man who noticed her was the musician, a youngster with barely a beard and naked, sweaty arms. Her son. From undistinguished beginnings Eking out a living among his betters and here to please. The

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more he watched her, the more Shawme felt a kinship. She began won dering if, when his music was done, the youth would come toward her.

But it didn't work out that way.

She was studying the frescoes in the saloon through a growing fog of smoke, finally realizing how instructive they were to an ignorant girl. On them men were portrayed doing what she'd seen dogs do in the street. And women knelt before them, doing mysterious things that involved kissing. Shawme was trying to guess at what that would be like, feeling her mouth grow dry and her heart pound as each successive man took someone else and the crowd of women thinned while she tried not to notice and prayed that Myrtis wouldn't come down tonight to find Shawme the only unclaimed girl, the only one who hadn't made a cop per's worth of profit for the house . . .

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