Between the times Marius and I have spent packing up the steamer trunks for lengthy travel, I have managed to spend what brief few moments I can afford with the girl whose name I have since learned, is Capriel. It pains me that I am unable to find it within myself to admit to her that I am no free man. How much easier it would be to suffer her angry retribution, than to see her heart breaking with the false assumption that I do not want her. Even a poor man would do all in his power to garner unto himself that which he cannot live without.
Since the days of my confinement passed, Marius has not brought up the subject of the girl. And neither have I. There is a peace between us that I have no desire to alter, nor do I wish to see him riled with disappointment in me ever again. My priorities were quite remiss for a little while, yet I am relieved that I did not go so far as to push him into disposing of me for a few coins. I need Marius.. as much as I am sure that he needs me.
We'll be sailing across Thassa in just a few days time. Port Kar awaits us with anticipation and open arms. It is said that the port city is the cesspool of all cities, and the worst of denizens, often outlawed from their original Home Stones make their abode there. Too, there is rumor that the kajirae in that city are not rivaled in dance or wile.. that they possess a haughty arrogance unmatched in any of the other cities on the face of Gor. Yet if this be the truth, I know I shall see none but the face of Capriel upon each and every one of them, with her inconsolable broken heart.
Therein lies the base of my reckoning; it is to Marius that I belong.
And to Marius that I owe a debt I can never repay.
Since the days of my confinement passed, Marius has not brought up the subject of the girl. And neither have I. There is a peace between us that I have no desire to alter, nor do I wish to see him riled with disappointment in me ever again. My priorities were quite remiss for a little while, yet I am relieved that I did not go so far as to push him into disposing of me for a few coins. I need Marius.. as much as I am sure that he needs me.
We'll be sailing across Thassa in just a few days time. Port Kar awaits us with anticipation and open arms. It is said that the port city is the cesspool of all cities, and the worst of denizens, often outlawed from their original Home Stones make their abode there. Too, there is rumor that the kajirae in that city are not rivaled in dance or wile.. that they possess a haughty arrogance unmatched in any of the other cities on the face of Gor. Yet if this be the truth, I know I shall see none but the face of Capriel upon each and every one of them, with her inconsolable broken heart.
Therein lies the base of my reckoning; it is to Marius that I belong.
And to Marius that I owe a debt I can never repay.
