Like all major cities, Barbaria - capital city of the Gynarchy - has a developed system of underground sewers and drains to take away the city's waste. Unlike other cities, however, the municipal authorities have deliberately sentenced certain prisoner-slaves to life as drain slaves! They must lie on their backs in the city sewage and look up at the shoes and boots of their betters as the latter, literally, walk all over them! Nobody bats an eyelid at the occasional glimpse of a dirty, soiled face looking up at them from a city drain. Such drain slaves are just part of the city's infrastructure. And besides, anyone walking over such a drain slave is doing him a favour, since such lowly prisoner-slaves rely on the dirt and detritus that falls off pedestrians' shoe and boot soles for their sustenance! A pair of boots walks over the drain slave He also catches a glimpse of the boot-wearer's socks The person towers over the low-lying drain slave! She happens to be a young...