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Strange, I thought, that so mighty a bounty, ten thousand tarn disks, of gold, of double weight, had not yet been claimed. - (Swordsmen of Gor, Chapter 28, Sentence #336)

She had not been Talena, of course, not the Talena. Again I recalled the conversation with Seremides, in the darkness above the forest. I gathered that the Ubara had not yet been brought before the throne of a Ubar's justice. Strange, I thought, that so mighty a bounty, ten thousand tarn disks, of gold, of double weight, had not yet been claimed. What value might she have to someone, or something, which might exceed such a sum? Did a captor wait for even so incredible a sum to be increased? Were negotiations now in progress? Perhaps a captor was amused to have the former Ubara at his slave ring for a time, before, say, tiring of her, and then delivering her to the justice of Ar. I could well imagine the slave, in such a situation, striving mightily to please whoever, or whatever, might be her master of the moment, to postpone as long as possible the day of her return to Ar. "Please, Master," whispered the slave. - (Swordsmen of Gor)