A Flute Dance

On the wall,
in the trough of the breach,
we saw four men rolling a heavy stone
toward the field side of the wall.
A flute girl was parodying, or accompanying,
their efforts on the flute,
the instrument seeming to strain with them,
and then, when they rolled the stone down,
she played a skirl of descending notes on the flute,
and, spinning about, danced away.
The men laughed.
There was suddenly near us,
startling us,
another skirl of notes on a flute,
the common double flute.
A flute girl,
come apparently from the wall side of the Wall Road,
danced tauntingly near us,
to our right, and,
with the flue,
while playing,
gestured toward the wall,
as though encouraging us to join the others in their labor. Not only had we been started by the sudden intrusive noise,
which the girl must have understood would have been the case,
but we resented the insinuation that we might be such
as would of our own will join the work on the wall. the pacified, t
he conpredictable,
the tamed?
She was an exciting brunet,
in a short tunic of diaphanous silk. and was probably kept on a carefully supervised diet
by her master or trainer.
Her dark eyes shone with amusement.
She pranced before us,
playing.
She waved the flute again towards the wall.
We regarded her.
She again gestured,
playing,
toward the wall.
I had little doubt that she assumed from our appearance
in this area that we were of Ar.
We did not move.
A gesture of annoyance crossed her lovely features.
She played more determinedly,
as though we might not understand her intent. Then, angrily, (Magicians of Gor, pgs 120-121)