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Yet, assuming the unwillingness of the enemy's leadership to maintain a lengthy siege, it seemed he would have little choice now but to order a scaling attack, despite the risks involved. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 43, Sentence #150)

I stood, for a time, looking back across the field, at the many burning tents. I hoped my stratagem would prove fruitful, that of bringing about a scaling attack on Mytilene, which presumably would be unsuccessful and inflict heavy losses on the enemy, losses which mercenaries would be unlikely to accept with equanimity. Their leadership's recourse to siege engines, that walls might be demolished, and mining, that the town might be taken from within, both suggested that scaling, which in many cases, at least where larger numbers were involved, would have been a commander's first choice, was here an undesired alternative, something more in the nature of a last resort. Yet, assuming the unwillingness of the enemy's leadership to maintain a lengthy siege, it seemed he would have little choice now but to order a scaling attack, despite the risks involved. Certainly he would not wish to lose time and expend resources indefinitely at Mytilene when his efforts might be more lucratively applied elsewhere. It had doubtless been his hope to take the town by surprise and sack it within two or three days at most, which hope, one notes, had been disappointed. I then turned about and made my way back to the ditch and tunnel, to return to Mytilene. - (Avengers of Gor)