Cages (Term)

There are different cages for different reasons throughout the Sime~Gen Novels. Some were on the backs of wagons for transporting Gens from one place to another, other were used to house Gens at the Choice Auctions  before being displayed for sale.
Out-Territory, Gens put captured Simes into cages to question them.  Hugh Valleroy, the main Gen character in House of Zeor, was an interrogator of Sime prisoners because he knew Simelan. 
Pens had cages where Gens were kept, ready for tax paying citizens to claim their monthly Kill.
In some places a cage would be placed in the center of town where simes would  be placed on public display for crimes that were punishable by death by attrition.
In House of Zeor, Runzi's Raiders  have cages that are specially designed so that hands could not fit through the bars, and was capable of holding sime prisoners as well as Gens. It was these cages that Klyd, Hugh and Aisha were held.
Snippets from: House of Zeor, Ch 12. '...The cages themselves were rectangular boxes divided into six equal compartments by a triple row of bars down the long axis and two triple rows across the short axis. The outside walls of the cages were double rows of bars, one row six inches inside the other and offset so that there was almost no space between bars...
...The roofs and floors were solid metal. The whole unit was mounted on stubby legs fitted with rollers, and the whole unit looked like nothing so much as a circus wagon... 
...after rigging flexible transparent sheets around the sides of the cages...
…The interior of the cage was bleak but clean. Dividing his compartment from the adjacent ones, the three staggered rows of bars almost provided privacy of a sort yet without the effect of solitary confinement. There was a full eight inches between the rows of bars. They were set so close together that only a child's wrist could fit between them. There was no way occupants of adjacent cages could combine resources for an escape.
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