Free Fighting Slave of Gor by John Norman

"we do not accept disobedience in slaves, not the least disobedience, is that clearly understood?"
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "Beyond that," she said, "a slave is expected to be fully pleasing, fully. Is that understood, perfectly?"
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "The animals you have seen are called sleen," she said. "They are used for many purposes on Gor. One purpose they are commonly used for is to hunt down and destroy slaves. That is the purpose, incidentally, for which the animals you have just seen have been trained."
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "It is common also on Gor to take troublesome or disobedient slaves, or recalcitrant slaves, or slaves who have not been fully pleasing, perhaps even in a quite minor way, either male or female salves, and feed them to sleen. Indeed, sometimes slaves are fed to sleen simply for the amusement of the masters."
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "Do you understand now, just a little, what it might be to be a slave on Gor?" she asked.
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "Get on your hands and knees," she said.
    I did so.
    One of the men, the strong fellow with brown, shaggy hair, said something to her. She laughed, and shook her head. They exchanged a remark or two, and then the two men, the fellow with brown, shaggy hair and the other man, the large Oriental fellow, turned about and left.
    "He was asking," she said, "if I wished him to accompany me back to the cell." She hung the whip on her belt, folding back its blades. There was a small ring on the butt end of the whip which fitted over a hook on the belt. The blades of the whip fitted under a clip, also on the belt. She turned the collar on my throat, so that the metal attachment, or ring, was at the back. "I told him it would not be necessary," she said. She unslung the metal chain from her belt. "I told him you were tame," she said. She then snapped the chain on the collar. She jerked it. I was on my hands and knees, leashed. "You are tamed, aren't you?" she asked.
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "Come along now," she said. "We are returning to the cell."
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
     
    "Kneel here," she said.
    I knelt where she indicated. She took the shackles from the rear ring and snapped them on my ankles.
    She came around in front of me, and crouched down. "Put your wrists here," she said.
    I put my wrists where she had indicated and she snapped them into the waiting manacles, those attached to the forward ring. She had already removed the chain leash from my collar and, coiling it, slung it on her belt.
    I then knelt chained before her. I was again in my cell. Again my ankles were shackled to a ring. Again my wrists were manacled to the forward ring. Things were much as they had been before, before she had called the men to fetch me forth from the cell. There was, however, one important difference. Before there had knelt on that spot a free man in chains. There knelt there now only a chained slave.
    She stood up and backed away a bit, and stood there, regarding me.
    "You will commonly," she said, not unkindly, "when kneeling before a free woman, keep your knees spread, unless your lady wishes otherwise."
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "That is right," she said. "I find that good. But remember, the whim of the Mistress is everything."
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    "You are, as far as I know," she said, "the first male of Earth brought to Gor as a slave."
    "It is an accident that I am here," I said. "I fell across the path of slavers. Please send me back to Earth."
    "Be silent, Slave," she said.
    "Yes, Mistress," I said.
    She walked around behind me, where I could not see her.
    "I was once, for a time, on your planet," she said.
    "Oh?" I said.
    I heard a very tiny sound, almost inaudible, metallic.
    "Did you hear that sound?" she asked.
    "Yes," I said.
    "It is the sound of the whip being removed from my belt," she said.
    I said nothing.
    "You will learn to know it well," she said. "Yes," she said, "a year and a half ago, in the service of my superiors, I