: So, Shiver, a camp follower? Could this mean a *cough
: cough* "improver of morale?" *wink*
: T'wouldn't be something to be proud of at any rate...
I think he just meant it as an insult, and shouldn't be taken any more literally than Soulblighter's chamberpot comment. Ravanna, as a modern, empowered woman wants to be more than a sex object and to have some kind of power. That power would be best achieved by holding such things just out of men's reach, rather than giving them away free. This would be consistant with her vanity.