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It was easy to understand, now, why those who had seen the chain tended to be more confident of its effectiveness than those who had not. - (Rogue of Gor, Chapter 33, Sentence #123)

We had been unprepared for its impressiveness. It represented an engineering feat of no mean proportions. Although we retained our theoretical reservations about its effectiveness, these reservations, in the very presence of the chain, seemed, to my relief, less alarming, and more tenuous and abstract, than they had in the urgent discussions which had taken place in the tavern of Tasdron. It was easy to understand, now, why those who had seen the chain tended to be more confident of its effectiveness than those who had not. I listened to the creaking of the mighty links, and to the water lapping at the sides of our galley, and to the occasional cries of Vosk gulls. "Perhaps the Voskjard does fear the chain," I said. "There is surely enough predation west of the chain for him," said Callimachus. - (Rogue of Gor)