Lexicon:Modern/Kaj

Kaj
Stage	Modern CLT
Pronunciation	/ˈkadʒ/
Part of speech	Verb
Etymology	from Middle Kaje

Kaj — enter the display cage. A command.

Notes

A command. The display cage is used at market and in the presentation rooms of the larger houses. Small cages in ordinary homes are a slave’s bed and her storage and carry no pose at all.

Inside, she rests in Elyr, or in Neilei where the floor allows it, and small shifts are permitted because a market runs for hours: weight from one leg to the other, hands unfolded and refolded, anything slow that does not break the line. Sitting and leaning are not, unless she is told they are.

When there is a buyer to show she is put through the display poses on command — Keicha, Slaj, Aswycha, Poeger, Wyswyr where build is the question, Baerroell to show all sides, and Voech walked in place where there is no room to walk. Marka is not used in a cage, there being nowhere to kneel with the hair held up.