The Qrim Chieftain
By Stan Morris
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A barbarian chieftain takes revenge on the Princess who scorned him.
Stan Morris
Stan Morris was born during the Truman Adminstration in Linwood, California. He lived in South Gate, Lakewood, and Norwalk before his family moved to Concord, California in 1964. He was educated at a variety of community colleges before receiving a degree from Eastern New Mexico University. He has a wonderful wife, two grown gainfully employed children, and a thirst for reading, writing, watching sports, gardening, and international travel.
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The Qrim Chieftain
By Stan Morris
Originally published in my short story collection What’s In My Shorts?
After the Beginning
When Gay turned the corner, the chatter of the other girls ceased. They stared at her, some with concern on their faces, others with sympathy, one with a barely concealed smirk. She joined the group, and they padded on bare feet along the cool, richly tiled corridor towards the room that had been converted into a classroom.
Are you well, Princess?
Peppe, daughter of a formerly high noble whispered. Has he…? I mean… does he…?
Shush,
exclaimed one of the other girls, and the rest, including the smirker, glanced nervously up and down the corridor, fearing one of the barbarians had happened to overhear.
My name is Gaysha now, Peppe,
she replied, her words firm. You must never call me by that title again.
I’m sorry,
Peppe answered, her eyes downcast.
Come. Say my name.
Gaysha. Your name is Gaysha.
Gay gave her friend a brave smile. It’s a pretty name.
For a barbarian,
someone muttered, but they had arrived at their class, so Gay did not reply.
Sia Sterna was already inside, waiting along with the rest of the girls, and when they saw their teacher’s frown, the late group hastily took their places on the grass mats. On the first day of class, one of the girls had answered Sia Sterna insolently, and the old barbarian crone had hauled the offender by an ear to the front of the class, and had repeatedly struck the poor girl’s bare bottom with a short thin stick as punishment for the offense. Sia Sterna was fond of her stick, and by now all of them, including Gay, had felt the stinging chastisement of that instrument on their tender rear ends.
"E ador, zee," Sia Sterna began, and obediently the girls echoed her.
In the language of the barbarian Qrim, the words meant, I love you, master.
Each afternoon the girls attended language class. Gay’s mat was one of four in the third row. She sat on the far right, one of sixteen girls in the class. Her mat’s position was unremarkable, and it was another indication of her diminished status, sitting as it did among girls who had formerly been