<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: 150%; line-height: 116%;"><span style="color: #FFBF00">Ernest Glen Stevens</span></span></div><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #FFBF00">Professor Stevens</span></div><br/><br/><div style="text-align: center;"><a class="postlink" href="http://i1343.photobucket.com/albums/o793/Galvin_Fugazi/0b949cc1-f3e3-4b2b-9453-c391a496997f_zps8c4edb79.jpg">[ img ]</a></div><br/><br/>Somehow Gleywine's answer did not surprise him. He continued his notes, nodding his head as Gleywine spoke. When he was done, he had thought of yet another question.<br/><br/><span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #FFBF00">"So, you say many are taken as slaves by the Getalians...What if an Uhuru woman has suddenly found herself free, but she had been raped while in the custody of the Getalians? Would her village still shun her?"</span> </span>the professor had a feeling he already knew the answer, but he was hoping against hope that the Uhuru would not do such a thing. However, as often was the case for places that valued virginity so highly, rape was not an excuse.<span style="color: #FFBF00"> "How do they deal with rape in general? Such as a Uhuru man taking a Uhuru woman by force--how would they handle that?" </span>Ernest asked. He knew it was likely they would force the two to marry each other, or perhaps send the woman away. It was a common thing in history of his own planet, and he would not be surprised in the least if that was how the Uhuru dealt with it as well. Then again, they were different people in a different world--anything was possible.<br/><br/>Ernest greatly worried for the Uhuru people who were slaves in Getalia. What would their lives be like if and when they were finally set free? Would they go back to their tribes, their old families--or would they have no choice but to settle into the Getalia way of life? It seemed so cruel that they would have to face such obstacles when they had done nothing wrong to begin with. He supposed, however, that life had always had its cruelties and there were things that no one could ever hope to understand. Fate was a terribly cruel mistress.