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I had used it sparingly in my flights with him, even more sparingly than is recommended, but it had always been there, ready to be used if needed. - (Tarnsman of Gor, Chapter 12, Sentence #161)

Also, I should have carried an extra tarn whistle. Mine had been lost when Talena had thrown me from the back of the tarn shortly after we had fled the walls of Ar. I wasn't sure I could control the tarn without a tarn-goad. I had used it sparingly in my flights with him, even more sparingly than is recommended, but it had always been there, ready to be used if needed. Now it was no longer there. Whether I could control the tarn or not would probably, at least for a time, depend on whether or not he had been successful in his hunt and on how well the tarn keepers had done their work with the young bird. And would it not also depend on how deep the bite of freedom had been felt by the bird, how ready he would be to be controlled once more by man? With my spear I could kill him, but that would not rescue me from the ledge. - (Tarnsman of Gor)