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Certainly they flew through the air, swiftly, almost invisible, until they struck, and were feathered, as birds. - (Kur of Gor, Chapter 39, Sentence #57)

Clearly the next Kur who fell had been struck from a different direction, and then another fell, too, struck from yet another quarter. Most, if not all, of these Kurii, were world Kurii and unfamiliar with the bow, and certainly the great bow, and it was not even clear that many, at first, even understood the method of propulsion used in this attack. Similarly, at first, some supposed that these things were alive which struck their fellows. Certainly they flew through the air, swiftly, almost invisible, until they struck, and were feathered, as birds. There was then a paucity of clear targets, as Kurii crouched down behind hurdles formed from their ladder poles, and some behind the large log, which had presumably been intended to batter at the walls or gate of the diminutive citadel, and some huddled behind ramparts raised of their fellows' bodies. Then from behind the wall, suddenly, large stones were being cast down upon the disconcerted, apprehensive besiegers. Roars of rage and pain greeted this barrage of weighty stones, a directed rain of gigantic rocks, any one of which, flung with the strength and force of a Kur, might have felled a tharlarion. - (Kur of Gor)