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Misk

Book 3. (497 results) Priest-Kings of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
27	170	Then, with a force that might have been that of clashing, golden glaciers, Misk's jaws tightened and turned and suddenly Sarm was thrown to his back beneath him and in the instant Sarm struck the floor Misk's jaws had slipped their grip to the thick tube about which hung the string of Tola's silveri...	10
14	156	I would learn later, however, that this simple fact was indeed almost incomprehensible to Priest-Kings, and that Misk, though he readily accepted it as a fact in his mind, could not bring himself, so to speak, in the furthest reaches of his heart to acknowledge it as true, for were not both he and S...	10
15	82	"It is well for us to die," said Misk, "for otherwise the Nest would be eternal and the Nest must not be eternal, for how could we love it if it were so?" I could not follow all of what Misk was saying, and I found it hard to take my eyes from the inert figure of the young male Priest-King which lay...	10
16	1	The Plot of Misk I took my eyes from the young Priest-King and looked up at Misk.	10
22	179	"Could you, Misk," I asked, "with those bladelike structures on your forelegs slay a Priest-King?" Misk inverted his forelegs and examined the blades.	10
27	154	Suddenly Sarm charged at Misk and slashed down at him with one of those bladelike projections on his forelegs and leaped away even before I saw the green-filled wound opening on the left side of one of those great, compound luminous disks on Misk's head.	10
27	155	Again Sarm charged and again I saw a long greenish-wet opening appear as if by magic on the side of Misk's huge golden head, and again Sarm, whose speed was almost unbelievable, leaped away before Misk could touch him and was again circling and watching.	10
27	167	Once again Sarm leaped in, his bladed projection lifted to strike, but this time Misk suddenly straightened himself promptly on the leg which had seemed to fail him and whipped his antennae back behind his head an instant before the stroke of Sarm's blade and when Sarm struck he found his appendage ...	10
27	168	Sarm seemed to tremble and he struck with his other foreleg but this one too Misk seized with his other foreleg and once again they stood rocking on their posterior appendages, for Misk, having learned their strengths in the first grappling, and lacking the swiftness of Sarm, had decided to close wi...	10
28	174	Somewhat to their embarrassment but for their own safety the Priest-Kings who had joined Misk wore painted on the back and front of their thorax the block letter which in the Gorean alphabet would be the first letter of Misk's name.	10
29	74	My heart leaped! Ground fire! I could imagine Misk hastening to his tools and the vast assemblage of instrumentation in his shop, or perhaps sending an outraged Priest-King to some secret arsenal where lay a forbidden weapon, one to which Misk would never have had recourse were it not for the hideou...	10
30	77	Now the Beetles roamed at random throughout the Nest, more of a threat to Sarm's own forces than Misk's, for now none of Misk's Priest-Kings ventured abroad without a human to protect it should it encounter a Golden Beetle.	10
30	84	To the females of Misk's forces he offered gold, jewelry, precious stones, delicious silks, the permission to allow their hair to grow, and male slaves, the latter again to be provided after the projected defeat of Misk's forces.	10
30	192	Apparently Misk's forces were waiting for them, as might have been expected given the superior intelligence afforded by the numerous humans in Misk's camp and the disks were stopped by barricades and withered in the intense fire from nearby rooftops.	10
32	27	Together Misk and I, as the blue lavalike mass began to hiss over the rubble bubbling towards us, forced aside the great block of stone and Misk tenderly gathered up the broken carcass of Sarm in his forelegs and he and I sped toward the opening, and the blue molten flux of burning, seething, hissin...	10
35	54	I truly believe it never occurred to Misk that I meant that he himself, Misk, was the greatest of the Priest-Kings.	10
35	123	"Howsoever I spoke," said Misk, "words cannot diminish men or Priest-Kings—for who cares what we are—if we can act, decide, sense beauty, seek right, and have hopes for our people?" I swallowed hard, for I knew I had hopes for my race, and I sensed how Misk must have them for his, only...	10
35	127	If I should attempt to help Misk, what would this mean, ultimately? Would it not be to surrender my race to the mercies of the people of Sarm and the Priest-Kings who had served him, or would it be ultimately to protect my race until it had learned to live with itself, until it had reached the matur...	10
35	181	I lifted my arm in farewell to Misk, and, to the surprise of the men with me, Misk lifted one foreleg, and then turned and was gone.	10
10	1	Misk the Priest-King The Priest-Kings have little or no scent of their own which is detectable by the human nostrils, though one gathers there is a nest odor by which they may identify one another, and that the variations in this nest odor permit identifications of individuals.	10
10	126	"Misk," it said.	10
11	3	The new Priest-King looked a great deal like Misk, save that he was larger.	10
11	10	It seemed to me much like Misk except in size.	10
11	11	Like Misk it wore no clothing and carried no weapons, and its only accouterment was a translator which dangled from its neck.	10
11	13	"Why has it not been anesthetized?" asked the new creature, training its antennae on Misk.	10
11	14	"I did not think it would be necessary," said Misk.	10
11	16	"I know," said Misk.	10
11	18	Misk seemed to shrug.	10
11	20	"The Nest was not jeopardized," came from Misk's translator.	10
11	24	When Misk replied he too turned off his translator.	10
11	46	"No," said Misk.	10
11	47	Sarm's antennae darted in Misk's direction.	10
11	48	"Greatest in the Nest is the Mother," said Misk.	10
11	56	"Except on the three great holidays," said Misk.	10
11	59	"The Nest Feast Cycle," said Misk, "Tola, Tolam and Tolama".	10
11	61	"They are the Anniversary of the Nuptial Flight," said Misk, "the Feast of the Deposition of the First Egg and the Celebration of the Hatching of the First Egg".	10
11	63	"Yes," said Misk.	10
11	65	"True," said Misk.	10
11	67	Sarm seemed not to notice this change but Misk's antennae perked up immediately.	10
11	69	"Do not think badly of us, Tarl Cabot," said Misk, "for on the holidays those of the lower orders who labor for us—be it even in the pastures or fungus trays—are given surcease from their labors".	10
11	71	"Do the men below the mountains do as much for their animals?" asked Misk.	10
11	87	From behind me I heard the mechanical voice of Misk's translator: "But she is the Mother," it said, "and we of the Nest are all her children".	10
11	101	Suddenly Sarm's antennae pointed at Misk.	10
11	103	"Perhaps," said Misk.	10
11	105	I felt that I had betrayed Misk's trust in me, that I had behaved as a not fully rational creature, that I had behaved as Sarm had expected me to.	10
11	107	"You see," said Misk.	10
11	111	"It is shaking and curling his antennae," said Misk.	10
11	114	"Mount the disk, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," said Misk, gesturing with his foreleg to the flat oval disk which had brought Sarm to our level.	10
11	117	"He has much to fear," said Misk.	10
11	119	"Then mount the disk," said Misk.	10
12	7	"I see human beings here," I said to Misk.	10
12	8	"Are they slaves?" "Yes," said Misk.	10
12	10	"It is not necessary to mark a distinction between slave and free within the Nest," said Misk, "for in the Nest all humans are slaves".	10
12	12	"It is more sanitary," said Misk.	10
12	16	"Why do the slaves wear purple?" I asked Misk.	10
12	18	"Because it is a great honor to be the slave of Priest-Kings," said Misk.	10
12	23	"He is not to be destroyed immediately," said Misk, "nor is he to be shaved and clad as a slave".	10
12	25	"It is the wish of the Mother," said Misk.	10
12	27	"Much," said Misk.	10
12	32	"Don't be foolish," said Misk to me.	10
12	34	"The purpose is known to the Mother," said Misk.	10
12	36	"She is the Mother," said Misk.	10
12	43	* * * * "Your sword," said Misk, extending one foreleg down to me.	10
12	45	"Please," said Misk.	10
12	46	For some reason I unbuckled the sword belt and reluctantly handed the weapon to Misk.	10
12	52	Misk during all this time had not moved but had remained standing in that incredible fixity perhaps unique to Priest-Kings.	10
12	54	"Of course," said Misk.	10
12	56	"For the time," said Misk, "it is the wish of the Mother that it be permitted to live as a Matok".	10
12	60	"A creature that is in the Nest but is not of the Nest," said Misk.	10
12	62	"Precisely," said Misk.	10
12	64	"But that is not the wish of the Mother," said Misk.	10
12	66	"Thus," said Misk, "it is not the wish of the Nest".	10
12	68	"The Mother is the Nest and the Nest is the Mother," said Misk.	10
12	72	"Of course," said Misk.	10
12	74	"Perhaps," said Misk.	10
12	79	"Perhaps," said Misk.	10
12	81	Misk was silent.	10
12	98	"In the Nest," said Misk, "the expression 'Mul' is used to designate a human slave".	10
12	109	"Some of the low numbers," volunteered Misk, "have been assigned as many as a thousand times".	10
12	111	"They are special," said Misk.	10
12	114	Perhaps Misk had meant merely that they were unusually excellent representatives of the human type.	10
12	130	"Kusk," said Misk, "is one of the greatest of the Nest".	10
12	136	"It is growing late," said Misk, "and the Matok, if he is to remain in the Nest, must be processed".	10
12	140	I wondered about what Misk meant by 'processing' but Sarm's words irritated me, as did the two grave, handsome fellows who had so spontaneously groveled before his dais.	10
12	154	"Of course," said Misk.	10
12	159	"They have no wish to be free," said Misk.	10
12	163	"You see?" asked Misk.	10
12	169	Misk had not moved.	10
12	171	Sarm turned to Misk.	10
12	172	"Would the Mother object if the Matok's arms and legs were broken?" "Yes," said Misk.	10
12	174	"Undoubtedly," said Misk.	10
12	176	"Yes," said Misk, "undoubtedly it will have to be disciplined sometime".	10
12	194	I looked up at Sarm and Misk, who, observing, stood in that slightly inclined, infuriatingly still posture.	10
12	195	"Do not injure them further," said Misk.	10
12	197	"Perhaps the Matok is right," said Misk to Sarm.	10
12	207	"They feel they have failed the Priest-Kings and wish to die," said Misk.	10
12	215	My eyes were fixed however on Sarm and Misk.	10
12	218	Misk's antennae shrugged.	10
12	222	Sarm and Misk touched antennae.	10
12	223	"The Matok is right," said Misk.	10
12	233	"You must understand, Tarl Cabot of Ko-ro-ba," said Misk, apparently sensing my puzzlement, "that it is the greatest joy of Muls to love and serve Priest-Kings.	10
12	236	"You see," continued Misk, "these Muls have been formed to love and serve Priest-Kings".	10
12	238	"Precisely," said Misk.	10
13	34	I once asked Misk why the syllabary of Priest-Kings was not simplified, and he responded, "If this were done we would have to give up certain signs, and we could not bear to do so, for they are all very beautiful".	10
14	1	The Secret Chamber of Misk The arms of the metal device seized me and I found myself held helplessly by the arms suspended some feet above the floor.	10
14	59	"You have been assigned quarters," said one of the two slaves, "a case in the chamber of Misk".	10
14	76	Misk told me, and I believe him, that Muls had occasionally slain one another for a handful of salt.	10
14	77	The Mul-Fungus, as far as I can tell, is not much different from the fungus, raised under ideal conditions from specially selected spores, which graces the feed troughs of the Priest-Kings themselves, a tiny sample of which was once given me by Misk.	10
14	79	Misk was much annoyed that I could not detect the difference.	10
14	81	I was in the Nest, incidentally, for more than five weeks before I could even vaguely detect the odor difference which seemed so significant to Misk.	10
14	84	I was given a translator by Misk and I would utter Gorean expressions into it and then wait for the translation into the language of the Priest-Kings, and in this way, after a time, I became capable of recognizing numerous meaningful odors.	10
14	85	The first odor I came to recognize was Misk's name, and it was delightful to then discover, as I became more practiced and sensitive, that the odor was the same as his own.	10
14	87	There was not much save my name and city, that I was a Matok under the supervision of Misk, that I had no record-scars and that I might be dangerous.	10
14	90	The case which I was to occupy in Misk's chamber was not as bad as I had anticipated.	10
14	91	Indeed, it seemed to me far more luxurious than the appointments in Misk's own chamber, which seemed utterly bare except for the feed trough and numerous compartments, dials, switches and plugs mounted in one wall.	10
14	93	The bareness of Misk's chamber was, however, as it turned out, only an apparent bareness to a visually oriented organism such as myself.	10
14	95	Indeed, Misk informed me that the patterns in his chamber had been laid down by some of the greatest artists in the Nest.	10
14	105	"It is fortunate," said Misk, "that you did not swallow it, for the washing fluid contains a cleansing additive that is highly toxic to human physiology".	10
14	106	Misk and I got on rather well together after a few small initial frictions, particularly having to do with the salt ration and the number of times a day the washing-booth was to be used.	10
14	110	In the beginning I held out for one shower a day as quite sufficient but poor Misk seemed so upset that I agreed to up my proposal to two.	10
14	112	At last, feeling that I perhaps owed something to Misk's acceptance of me in his chamber, I suggested a compromise at five, and, for an extra salt packet, six on alternate days.	10
14	113	At last Misk threw in two extra salt packets a day and I agreed to six washings.	10
14	116	I myself grew rather fond of Misk.	10
14	117	"Did you know," said Misk once to me, "that humans are among the most intelligent of the lower orders?" "I'm glad to hear it," I said.	10
14	118	Misk was quiet and his antennae quivered nostalgically.	10
14	121	"No," said Misk, "when a pet Mul dies the case is always destroyed, lest there be contamination".	10
14	123	"It was a small female," said Misk.	10
14	125	I felt a tension in the foreleg of Misk which I was grooming as though it were involuntarily preparing to invert, bringing out the bladelike projection.	10
14	127	Misk said nothing for a long time, and then he dejectedly lowered his head, delicately extending his antennae to me for grooming.	10
14	129	"It was my fault," said Misk.	10
14	131	Misk's voice came from the translator as consecutively and mechanically as ever, but his whole body trembled.	10
14	133	"I was indulgent," said Misk, straightening up so that his long body now loomed over me, inclined forward slightly from the vertical in the characteristic stance of Priest-Kings.	10
14	137	"And it occurred on the day on which she saved my life," said Misk.	10
14	139	"I was on an errand for Sarm," said Misk, "which took me to unfrequented tunnels and for company I took the girl with me.	10
14	141	Misk lowered his head again and extended his antennae for grooming.	10
14	142	"The pain was excruciating," said Misk, "and I could not but follow her in spite of the fact that I wanted to go to the Golden Beetle.	10
14	146	"No," said Misk.	10
14	149	"No," said Misk.	10
14	151	"Is it not possible," I asked, "that Sarm wished you to die by the Golden Beetle?" "Of course," said Misk.	10
14	153	I puzzled to myself why Sarm might want Misk to be killed.	10
14	155	To my human mind, used to the cruelties with which selfish men can implement their schemes, I saw nothing incomprehensible in the fact that Sarm would have attempted to engineer Misk's death.	10
14	161	"The Mother is greater than he," said Misk.	10
14	163	Misk looked at me and his antennae had a certain lack of resilience and the golden hairs had seemed to lose some of their sheen.	10
14	165	Misk bent down until his long body was horizontal and then inclined downward yet more towards me.	10
14	167	"You must not understand these things," said Misk, "in terms of what you know of men.	10
14	170	"These things," said Misk, "are deeper and greater than you know, than you can now understand".	10
14	172	"No," said Misk.	10
14	174	Misk's antennae pressed a bit on my shoulders.	10
14	180	Misk bent down and lifted this ring.	10
14	183	"I requisitioned as little as possible, you see," said Misk.	10
14	187	"This is a Mul-Torch," said Misk, "used by the Muls who raise fungus in darkened chambers.	10
14	190	"Please," said Misk, gesturing toward the opening.	10
15	1	In the Secret Chamber Holding the slender Mul-Torch over my head, I peered into the cavern now revealed in the floor of Misk's chamber.	10
15	4	"The workers of the Fungus-Trays," said Misk, "break off both ends of the torch and climb about on the trays with the torch in their teeth".	10
15	9	The walls a few feet below the level of Misk's compartment became damp.	10
15	15	Looking up I saw Misk, disdaining the rope, bend himself backwards through the aperture in the ceiling and, step by dainty step, walk across the ceiling upside down and then back himself nimbly down the side of the wall.	10
15	17	"You must never speak of what I am going to show you," said Misk.	10
15	19	Misk hesitated.	10
15	21	"But you are not of the Nest," said Misk.	10
15	23	"Very well," said Misk, and he bent forward, extending his antennae towards me.	10
15	25	I thrust the torch I carried into a crevice in the wall and, standing before Misk, I raised my arms over my head, extending them towards him.	10
15	30	* * * * Briskly Misk straightened up.	10
15	35	"Enter," said Misk, and I did so.	10
15	36	Scarcely were we inside when Misk touched a button I could not see several feet over my head and the door swung smoothly closed.	10
15	50	"I had to design this equipment myself," said Misk, "and for that reason it is inexcusably primitive, but there was no possibility to apply for standard instrumentation in this case".	10
15	52	"No," said Misk, "and observe I had to make my own mnemonic disks, devising a transducer to read the scent-tapes, which fortunately are easily available, and record their signals on blank receptor-plating, from there to be transformed into impulses for generating and regulating the appropriate neura...	10
15	54	"Of course," said Misk, "for you are a human".	10
15	57	"Of course not," said Misk.	10
15	59	"A male," said Misk.	10
15	63	"No," said Misk, "nor are the others".	10
15	65	"No," said Misk, "in the Nest only the Mother is female".	10
15	67	"Occasionally," said Misk, "an egg occurred which was female but these were ordered destroyed by Sarm.	10
15	69	"How long," I asked, "does a Priest-King live?" "Long ago," said Misk, "Priest-Kings discovered the secrets of cell replacement without pattern deterioration, and accordingly, unless we meet with injury or accident, we will live until we are found by the Golden Beetle".	10
15	71	"I myself was hatched," said Misk, "before we brought our world into your solar system".	10
15	75	"It is dying now," said Misk.	10
15	80	"It would be wrong," said Misk.	10
15	83	"There must be a new Nest," said Misk.	10
15	87	"Yes," said Misk.	10
15	89	"He does not wish to pass," said Misk simply.	10
15	92	"I am teaching him," said Misk.	10
15	94	"What you know—even a creature such as yourself—" said Misk, "depends on the charges and microstates of your neural tissue, and, customarily, you obtain these charges and microstates in the process of registering and assimilating sensory stimuli from your environment, as for example wh...	10
15	101	"He is a Priest-King," said Misk, "and has eight brains, modifications of the ganglionic net, whereas a creature such as yourself, limited by vertebrae, is likely to develop only one brain".	10
15	103	"Of course," said Misk, "for the lower orders instruct their young differently, accomplishing only an infinitesimal fraction of this in a lifetime of study".	10
15	105	"Customarily," said Misk, "the mnemonic plates are standardized by the Keepers of the Tradition, chief of whom is Sarm".	10
15	106	Misk straightened and his antennae curled a bit.	10
15	109	"Brains," said Misk.	10
15	111	"Do not be foolish," said Misk.	10
15	116	"I see," said Misk, "you fear he is becoming a kind of machine".	10
15	118	"You must remember," said Misk, "that he is a Priest-King and thus a rational creature and that we could not turn him into a machine without neutralizing certain critical and perceptive areas, without which he would no longer be a Priest-King".	10
15	120	"We are all such machines," said Misk, "with fewer or a greater number of random elements".	10
15	124	"Nor do I," said Misk.	10
15	127	"Once," said Misk, "we rejoiced and lived, but now though we remain young in body we are old in mind, and one wonders more often, from time to time, on the Pleasures of the Golden Beetle".	10
15	129	"Of course," said Misk, "for after one dies the Nest continues".	10
15	131	"Consciousness," said Misk, "seems to be a function of the ganglionic net".	10
15	134	"Of course," said Misk.	10
15	139	"No," said Misk, "for his external sensors are now being bypassed, but he will understand that he has learned things in this fashion, for a mnemonic disk has been inscribed to that effect".	10
15	142	"But will he continue to learn later?" "Of course," said Misk, "but he will build on a rather complete knowledge of what his ancestors have learned in the past.	10
15	146	"Undoubtedly they do," said Misk, "but the disks are continually in the process of revision and are kept as current as possible".	10
16	3	"I must tell you, Misk," I said slowly, "that I came to the Sardar to slay Priest-Kings, to take vengeance for the destruction of my city and its people".	10
16	4	I thought it only fair to let Misk know that I was no ally of his, that he should learn of my hatred for Priest-Kings and my determination to punish them, to the extent that it lay within my abilities, for the evil which they had done.	10
16	5	"No," said Misk.	10
16	8	"It is for that purpose that you were brought here," said Misk.	10
16	10	"Because my city was destroyed!" "That is why your city was destroyed," said Misk, "that you would come to the Sardar".	10
16	14	"If I had my sword," I said, pointing to the young Priest-King, "I would kill it!" "No, you would not," said Misk, "and that is why you and not another were chosen to come to the Sardar".	10
16	17	"You will not hurt it because it is innocent," said Misk.	10
16	22	"No," said Misk, "he is alive and so are others of your city, but they are scattered to the ends of Gor".	10
16	23	"And Talena?" "As far as I know she is still alive," said Misk, "but we cannot scan for her, or for others of Ko-ro-ba, without raising the suspicion that we are solicitous for you—or are bargaining with you".	10
16	25	"Why destroy a city?" "To conceal our motivation from Sarm," said Misk.	10
16	30	"So much the better," said Misk, "for the Men below the Mountains are then confused and fear us even more—but the members of the Caste of Initiates, we have found, will produce an explanation of why the city was destroyed.	10
16	35	"And the siege of Ar," I asked, "and the Empire of Marlenus?" "They provided a suitable test," said Misk.	10
16	38	"That is the reason then for your limitations of their weaponry and technology?" "Of course," said Misk, "but we have allowed them to develop in many areas—in medicine, for example, where something approximating the Stabilization Serums has been independently developed".	10
16	40	"You have surely not failed to notice," said Misk, "that though you came to the Counter-Earth more than seven years ago you have undergone no significant physical alteration in that time".	10
16	42	"Of course," said Misk, "their serums are not as effective as ours and sometimes do not function, and sometimes the effect wears off after only a few hundred years".	10
16	44	"Perhaps," said Misk.	10
16	50	"We keep in touch with the earth," said Misk, "for it might, in time, become a threat to us and then we would have to limit it, or destroy it or leave the solar system".	10
16	52	"None, I suspect," said Misk.	10
16	55	"As I said," went on Misk, "man is subrational.	10
16	61	"Indeed," said Misk, "it was partly because of this tendency that we brought man to the Counter-Earth, for he is an interesting species and it would be sad to us if he disappeared from the universe".	10
16	63	"No," said Misk, "we have similarly brought various species to the Counter-Earth, from other locations".	10
16	65	Misk shrugged his antennae.	10
16	67	"The Spider People are a gentle race," said Misk, "except the female at the time of mating".	10
16	69	"The Spider People are soft," said Misk.	10
16	72	"The Voyages of Acquisition," said Misk, "take place normally when we need fresh material from Earth, for our purposes".	10
16	74	"Obviously," said Misk.	10
16	76	"Nonsense," said Misk.	10
16	83	"But much of our knowledge comes from our implants," said Misk.	10
16	88	"Sometimes not," said Misk, "sometimes yes".	10
16	90	"Yes," said Misk, "as was the man from Ar whom you met on the road long ago near Ko-ro-ba".	10
16	92	"Perhaps the webbing was faulty," said Misk.	10
16	94	"Then he was most remarkable," said Misk.	10
16	97	"Yes," said Misk, "and your father, who is a brave and noble man, has served us upon occasion, though he dealt only, unknowingly, with Implanted Ones.	10
16	100	"Not with the stabilization serums," remarked Misk.	10
16	104	"I have been working against Sarm and the others for millennia," said Misk, "and at last—more than three hundred years ago—I managed to obtain the egg from which this male emerged".	10
16	105	Misk looked down at the young Priest-King on the stone table.	10
16	111	"She knew," said Misk, "for though she was a woman of Earth she had been to Gor".	10
16	113	"Matthew Cabot on Gor," said Misk, "was a hostage for her silence".	10
16	115	"Yes," said Misk, "because of a petty bacillus in your contaminated atmosphere, a victim to the inadequacies of your infantile bacteriology".	10
16	118	"It was difficult to foresee," said Misk.	10
16	125	"It frightened her," said Misk, "and your father asked that she be allowed to return to Earth, for, loving her, he wished her to be happy and also perhaps he wanted you to know something of his old world".	10
16	127	"When it was clear where you would camp the letter was placed there," said Misk.	10
16	128	"Then it did not lie there for more than three hundred years?" "Of course not," said Misk, "the risk of discovery would have been too great".	10
16	130	"You were warned to discard the letter," said Misk.	10
16	133	"You were warned to discard the letter," said Misk.	10
16	135	"It is a simple matter," said Misk, "to disrupt a magnetic field".	10
16	137	"The frightened human, when fleeing and disoriented, tends to circle," said Misk.	10
16	142	"No one is ever simply frightened," said Misk.	10
16	144	"You were anesthetized," said Misk.	10
16	146	"It could have been," said Misk, "but I could not risk that".	10
16	148	"Yes," said Misk.	10
16	150	"Yes," said Misk.	10
16	157	"Chance does not exist," said Misk, "ignorance exists".	10
16	159	"No," said Misk, "I cannot know it".	10
16	160	The tips of Misk's antennae gently dipped towards me.	10
16	163	"Was the fact that I was placed in the chamber of the girl Vika of Treve considered?" "Sarm suspects," said Misk, "and it was he who arranged your quarters, in order that you might succumb to her charms, that she might enthrall you, that she might bend you helplessly, pliantly to her will and whim a...	10
16	165	"A hundred men," said Misk, "allowed themselves to be chained to the foot of her couch where she would upon occasion, that they might not die, cast them scraps of food as though they might have been pet sleen".	10
16	168	"They were used as Muls," said Misk.	10
16	170	"I am glad that such a creature," said Misk, "is not of my species".	10
16	172	"When you broke the surveillance device in the chamber," said Misk, "I felt I had to act quickly".	10
16	174	"Then," I said, "you actually thought you were saving me?" "I did," said Misk.	10
16	176	"At any rate," said Misk, "it was not a risk we cared to take".	10
16	177	"You speak of 'we'?" "Yes," said Misk.	10
16	179	"The greatest in the Nest," said Misk.	10
16	181	Misk touched me lightly on the shoulder with his antennae.	10
16	184	"Why," I asked, "was I returned to Earth after the siege of Ar?" "To fill you with hatred for Priest-Kings," said Misk.	10
16	188	"We were waiting," said Misk.	10
16	190	"For there to be a female egg," said Misk.	10
16	191	"Is there now such an egg?" "Yes," said Misk, "but I do not know where it is".	10
16	193	"The Mother," said Misk.	10
16	195	"You are not of the Nest," said Misk, "and thus you can do what is necessary".	10
16	197	"Sarm must die," said Misk.	10
16	199	"Very well," said Misk.	10
16	200	I puzzled on the many things which Misk had told me, and then I looked up at him, lifting my torch that I might better see that great head with its rich, disklike, luminous eyes.	10
16	204	"It is the last egg," said Misk.	10
16	206	"The Mother was hatched and flew her Nuptial Flight long before the discovery of the stabilization serums," said Misk.	10
16	209	"The Mother is dying," said Misk.	10
16	210	I was silent and Misk did not speak and the only noise in that paneled metallic laboratory that was the cradle of a Priest-King was the soft crackle of the blue torch I held.	10
16	211	"Yes," said Misk, "it is the end of the Nest".	10
16	214	"That is true," said Misk.	10
16	216	"Well," I said, "are you not going to threaten me?" "No," said Misk.	10
16	217	"Are you not going to hunt down my father or my Free Companion and kill them if I do not serve you?" "No," said Misk.	10
16	220	"Are you not a Priest-King?" "Because I am a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
16	222	"All Priest-Kings are not as Sarm," said Misk.	10
16	226	Misk left the room and I, bearing the torch, followed him.	10
17	1	The Scanning Room Though the moss in the case was soft I had great difficulty in falling asleep that night, for I could not rid my mind of the turbulence which had been occasioned in it by the disclosures of Misk, the Priest-King.	10
17	3	I could not forget the plot of Misk, the threat which loomed over the Nest of the Priest-Kings.	10
17	10	"Where is Misk?" I asked.	10
17	15	"What are the duties of Misk which keep him from his chamber?" "In honor of the Feast of Tola," said Sarm, "he is now pleased to retain Gur".	10
17	18	"It is a beautiful compartment which Misk has here," he said, examining the visually bare walls with his antennae, admiring the scent-patterns which had been placed on them.	10
17	23	I had tried to find it on the translator and lexical tapes which Misk had placed at my disposal.	10
17	46	"Misk has had time to speak to you," said Sarm.	10
18	1	I Speak with Sarm In the next days, when I could escape from the attentions of Sarm, on occasions when he was undoubtedly drawn elsewhere by his numerous duties and responsibilities, I searched the Nest by myself, on a transportation disk furnished by Sarm, looking for Misk, but I found no trace of...	10
18	114	I then realized that he had touched himself at the points of entry taken by the wires which had been infixed in the young Priest-King's body on the stone table in the secret compartment below Misk's chamber.	10
18	118	"You know then of the modifications of the ganglionic net?" "Yes," I said, "Misk told me".	10
18	146	It is Misk".	10
18	150	"Misk believes that he brought you to the Nest for his own purposes, and I have allowed him to suppose so.	10
18	158	"Slay Misk," said Sarm.	10
18	162	"There is Nest Trust between myself and Misk," I said.	10
18	171	"Do you still wish me to slay Misk?" I asked.	10
19	1	Die, Tarl Cabot Now once again I would have my sword in my hands and at last I would be able to find Misk, for whose safety I feared.	10
19	3	Sarm did not act as quickly as I had anticipated and from the room of the power source had simply returned me to Misk's compartment, where my case was kept.	10
19	5	Why had we not gotten on directly with the business at hand? In the morning, after the hour of the first feeding, Sarm entered Misk's compartment, where I was waiting for him.	10
19	13	"Good," said Sarm, and went to one of the high cabinets in Misk's chamber and touching a button in a certain sequence of long and short presses opened it.	10
19	14	Sarm was apparently familiar with Misk's compartment.	10
19	17	From the high cabinet Sarm withdrew my sword belt, my scabbard, and the short, sharp blade of Gorean steel which I had earlier yielded at the request of Misk.	10
19	57	"It will not be easy with your tiny weapon," he said, "but Misk will be unable to resist you and so you may take as much time as you wish".	10
19	64	Rather than reveal this information he would undoubtedly prefer that I hack away at doomed Misk as though he were a block of insensate fungus.	10
19	65	Not only would I not do this because of my affection for Misk but even if I intended to kill him I surely would not have done so in this manner, for it is not the way a trained warrior kills.	10
19	67	I wished I had had time to investigate certain of Misk's scent-charts, but even if I had had the time, I might not have found helpful charts and, anyway, my translator scanning them could read only labels.	10
19	68	It would be simpler, when I approached Misk with my sword in hand, to see if he would volunteer the information.	10
19	70	"Will you accompany me," I asked, "to the slaying of Misk?" "No," said Sarm, "for it is Tola and I must give Gur to the Mother".	10
19	75	They will take you to Misk and later will direct you as to the disposal of the body".	10
19	103	To my nostrils, now alert to the signals of Priest-Kings and trained by my practice with the translator Misk had allowed me to use, there came a single brief odor, the components of which I had little difficulty in discriminating.	10
20	3	"We are instructed," said Mul-Al-Ka, "to take you to the Priest-King Misk, whom you are to slay".	10
20	10	Mul-Al-Ka stepped on the accelerator strips and guided the disk from the vicinity of Misk's portal and out into the broad, smooth thoroughfare of the tunnel.	10
20	144	Should I kill the innocent attendants, merely Muls who were performing the tasks allotted to them by Priest-Kings? Would I then have to slay Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta as well? And what would I do with the girl in the Nest of Priest-Kings? And what of Misk? Would I not then lose my opportunity, if any,...	10
20	155	"Precisely," said Mul-Al-Ka, "she whom Sarm promised to you as part of the riches accruing from your part in his plan to slay Misk".	10
20	181	"After I have finished with Misk are you then to kill me?" I asked.	10
20	240	"Take me to Misk," I said.	10
21	1	I Find Misk I followed Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta into a damp, high, vaulted chamber, unlit by energy bulbs.	10
21	6	"Where is Misk?" I asked.	10
21	9	In impatience I fingered the chain of the translator I had had the two Muls pick up on the way to Misk's prison.	10
21	10	I was not sure that Misk would have been allowed to retain his translator and I wished to be able to communicate with him.	10
21	17	"Misk," I said into it.	10
21	72	It was Misk.	10
22	6	Still holding the Mul-Torch in my teeth because I wanted both hands free I began to make my way toward Misk, hand and foot, across these metal extensions.	10
22	22	In a moment I stood by Misk's side.	10
22	24	I lifted the torch and looked at Misk.	10
22	26	"Greetings, Tarl Cabot," said Misk.	10
22	27	"Greetings, Misk," I said.	10
22	28	"You were very noisy," said Misk.	10
22	30	"Sarm should have had those bars checked," said Misk.	10
22	32	"But it is difficult to think of everything," said Misk.	10
22	34	"Well," said Misk.	10
22	37	"Yes," said Misk, "it will be difficult, but with perseverance I think it may be accomplished".	10
22	39	"A heart for example?" "Nothing that will be of great use," said Misk.	10
22	41	"On the other hand," said Misk, "I suppose you have the time".	10
22	43	"My own recommendation," said Misk, "would be the brain-nodes".	10
22	45	"Not really with your weapon," said Misk.	10
22	48	"I am sorry," said Misk.	10
22	50	"No," agreed Misk.	10
22	53	The device hung from a hook about a foot out of Misk's reach.	10
22	55	"A key to my chain," said Misk.	10
22	56	"Good," I said and walked over a few bars to get the device, and returned to Misk's side.	10
22	57	After a moment's difficulty I managed to insert the key into the lock on Misk's trunk band.	10
22	58	"Frankly," said Misk, "it would be my recommendation to slay me first and then unlock the band and dispose of my body, for otherwise I might be tempted to defend myself".	10
22	64	"That is true," agreed Misk and with his forelegs removed the metal band from his trunk and let it dangle from the chain.	10
22	67	Misk seemed to think a moment.	10
22	70	Then Misk looked down at Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta.	10
22	73	"Remarkable," said Misk.	10
22	75	"I suppose it is their privilege," said Misk.	10
22	77	Then, almost tenderly, Misk reached out with one foreleg and gathered me from the bar on which I stood.	10
22	81	Misk, the Muls and I now stood on the stone floor of the chamber near the door.	10
22	88	"That is very kind of you," responded Misk, peering down at us, "but it is of course impossible to do so".	10
22	91	Misk drew himself up to his proud, almost eighteen feet of height, save that he inclined slightly forward from the vertical, and fixed on us with his antennae what I had come to recognize in the last few weeks as a look of rather patient, gentle reproach.	10
22	94	"Well," said Misk, "it being the Feast of Tola I must give Gur to the Mother".	10
22	97	"Naturally," said Misk.	10
22	99	"Don't be foolish," said Misk, "it is the Feast of Tola and I must give Gur to the Mother".	10
22	100	I sensed there was no arguing with Misk, but his decision saddened me.	10
22	102	"What was sad," said Misk, "was that I might not have been able to give Gur to the Mother, and that thought troubled me grievously for the days in which I retained Gur, but now thanks to you I will be able to give Gur to the Mother and I will stand forever in your debt until I am slain by Sarm or su...	10
22	106	"Let there be Nest Trust between a Priest-King and two Muls," said Misk.	10
22	108	"Then," said Misk, "between a Priest-King and two of the human kind".	10
22	109	Slowly, fearfully, Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta lifted their hands and Misk touched them with his antennae.	10
22	112	"No," said Misk, "you must hide and try to live".	10
22	120	"It is much the same thing with a Priest-King," said Misk.	10
22	122	"What is this?" asked Misk.	10
22	125	"You will be too late," said Misk, "for the hatching time is at hand".	10
22	127	"Are you going?" asked Misk.	10
22	134	"I see," said Misk, "it is like giving Gur to the Mother".	10
22	139	"They are mutations," said Misk, "bred long ago for service in the darkened tunnels, now preserved for ceremonial purposes and for the sake of tradition".	10
22	149	Misk and I stood alone.	10
22	150	"That will mean trouble," said Misk.	10
22	152	"And you will be responsible," said Misk.	10
22	169	"Inquire," said Misk.	10
22	172	"I do not know," said Misk.	10
22	175	"It is not done," said Misk.	10
22	184	I lifted my arm to Misk.	10
22	186	Misk lifted one foreleg in salute, the bladelike projection disappearing.	10
23	10	I recalled vaguely that Misk had once said to me that in deference to the Golden Beetle it was given only free women.	10
23	56	And Misk had said to me he thought I would be too late for it was near hatching time.	10
25	21	I worried, for where could I find such a place? By now it might be well known to Sarm that I had refused to slay Misk and the Nest would no longer be safe for me, or for anyone associated with me.	10
25	22	For whether I wished it or not my action had placed me in the party of Misk.	10
25	101	I also noted, against the far wall of the brilliantly lit area, tiers and tiers of plastic cases, much like the one I had occupied in Misk's compartment.	10
25	103	Unlike the case in Misk's compartment and others I had seen, these were apparently locked.	10
27	3	It was almost eight Gorean Ahn, or about ten Earth hours, since I had separated from Misk and Mul-Al-Ka and Mul-Ba-Ta early this morning.	10
27	4	The transportation disk which had originally taken me to the chamber where I had found Misk I had taken to the entrance to the tunnels of the Golden Beetle and I thought it well that it should stay there, as if witnessing my entrance and my supposed failure to return.	10
27	17	I then leaped again on the transportation disk and swept away to Misk's compartment.	10
27	20	I must try to find Misk.	10
27	32	I wondered about the young male Priest-King in the secret chamber below Misk's compartment.	10
27	33	I supposed my best way of serving Misk might be to abandon him to his death and try to protect the young male, but these were matters in which I had little interest.	10
27	36	But Misk was different, for he was my friend.	10
27	38	I checked the sword in its sheath and left Misk's compartment, stepped to the transportation disk and swept silently, rapidly, down the tunnel in the direction in which I knew lay the Chamber of the Mother.	10
27	50	The only Priest-King in the Nest who could have recognized me immediately, and perhaps from a distance, was probably Misk, who knew me not as a Mul but a friend.	10
27	65	There was no sound to celebrate the Feast of Tola but I had little difficulty in locating the scene of the celebration, for I soon encountered a shaft, one of those through which used air is pumped out of the tunnels, which was rich in unusual and penetrating scents, of a sort which my stay with Mis...	10
27	92	If Sarm had killed them, how was it that the Mother had not learned of this and had him destroyed? Or was it her wish that there should be no others? But if so why was she, if it were true, in league with Misk to perpetuate the race of Priest-Kings? I looked again through the grille on the shaft.	10
27	116	I strained my eyes to see if I could pick out either Sarm or Misk in those golden rows.	10
27	118	Then almost at the same time I saw Sarm and Misk together.	10
27	119	The rows of the Priest-Kings separated forming an aisle down the middle of the chamber and the Priest-Kings now stood facing this aisle, and down the aisle together came Sarm and Misk.	10
27	120	I gathered that perhaps this was the culmination of the Feast of Tola, the giving of Gur by the greatest of the Priest-Kings, the First Five Born, save that of that number there were only two left, the First Born and the Fifth, Sarm and Misk.	10
27	122	Misk of course lacked the wreath of green leaves and the chain of tools about his neck.	10
27	123	If Sarm were disturbed at finding Misk, whom he thought to have had killed, at his side, he gave no sign to this effect.	10
27	124	Together, in silence to human ears but to the swelling intensities of scent-music, in stately, stalking procession the two Priest-Kings approached the Mother, and I saw Misk, first, dip his mouth to the great golden bowl on its tripod and then approach her.	10
27	125	As his antennae touched her head her antennae lifted and seemed to tremble and the ancient, brownish creature lifted her head and on her ready tongue from his own mouth Misk, her child, delicately and with supreme gentleness placed a glistening drop of Gur.	10
27	134	Misk stood by, immobile.	10
27	144	Slowly Sarm turned toward Misk.	10
27	146	Before the Platform of the Mother, facing Misk, rearing perhaps two feet over him, Sarm stood with what, even for a Priest-King, seemed a most terrible quietude.	10
27	147	For a long moment the antennae of the two Priest-Kings regarded one another and then Sarm's antennae flattened themselves over his head and so, too, did Misk's.	10
27	150	With a speed that I still find hard to comprehend Sarm rushed upon Misk and after a blurring moment I saw them on their posterior supporting appendages locked together rocking slowly back and forth, trying to bring those great golden, laterally chopping jaws into play.	10
27	152	Sarm broke away and began to circle again, and Misk turned slowly, watching him, his antennae still flattened.	10
27	156	Once more Sarm leaped to attack and this time a green-flowing wound sprang into view on the right side of Misk's thorax in the neighborhood of one of the brain-nodes.	10
27	158	Misk seemed stunned and slow, his head dropped and the antennae seemed to flutter, exposing themselves.	10
27	159	I noted that already the green exudate which flowed from Misk's wounds was turning into a green, frozen sludge on his body, stanching the flow from the wounds.	10
27	160	The thought crossed my mind that Misk, in spite of his apparently broken and helpless condition, had actually lost very little body fluid.	10
27	162	Cautiously Sarm watched Misk's fluttering, piteous, exposed antennae.	10
27	163	Then slowly one of Misk's legs seemed to give way beneath him and he tilted crazily to one side.	10
27	166	I wondered if Sarm, considering Misk's desperate condition and plight, would offer quarter.	10
27	172	Misk's jaws no longer closed but he stood as if undecided.	10
27	175	It was, indeed, though shorter and more intense, the first odor-signal that had ever been addressed to me, only then it had come from Misk's translator in the chamber of Vika.	10
27	177	Misk removed his jaws from the throat of Sarm and stepped back.	10
27	179	Misk slowly turned away from Sarm and with slow, delicate steps approached the Mother, before whom he stood, great chunks of greenish coagulated body fluid marking the wounds on his body.	10
27	183	Then to my horror I saw him remove the translator on its chain from his throat and wielding this like a mace and chain he rushed upon Misk and struck him viciously from behind.	10
27	184	Misk's legs slowly bent beneath him and his body lay on the floor of the chamber.	10
27	186	Sarm had drawn himself up again to his full height and like a golden blade he stood behind Misk and before the Mother.	10
27	190	But Sarm looked about himself to the golden rows of immobile Priest-Kings who watched him and then, satisfied, he opened those great, laterally moving jaws and advanced slowly on Misk.	10
27	191	At that instant I kicked loose the grille on the ventilator shaft and uttering the war cry of Ko-ro-ba sprang to the Platform of the Mother and in another instant had leaped between Sarm and Misk, my sword drawn.	10
27	221	I told myself it would probably come for the head or throat, if only because these were, from his height, easier to reach and he would wish to kill me quickly and with little difficulty, for he would surely regard his main business as the slaying of Misk, who still lay, either dead or unconscious, b...	10
27	233	"It is not done," he said, echoing words I had heard once from Misk.	10
27	249	"Yet you would slay Misk," I said.	10
27	269	Glancing over my shoulder I saw the welcome, now standing golden form of Misk.	10
27	273	Misk's message to Sarm was carried on Sarm's own translator.	10
27	274	"You have disobeyed the Mother," said Misk.	10
27	276	"Your Gur has been refused," said Misk.	10
27	280	"Go," said Misk.	10
27	282	I could not understand this but Misk, paying no attention to Sarm, or his cohorts or the other Priest-Kings, rushed to the Platform of the Mother.	10
27	285	I heard the message on the translators of Priest-Kings who, like Misk, approached the platform.	10
27	288	"The Mother is dying," said Misk.	10
27	294	It was strange to me to hear her speak of the powerful, golden creature Misk in such a way.	10
27	303	One of the Priest-Kings prepared to inject the serum despite her refusal to accept it, but Misk's foreleg rested on his and he did not do so.	10
27	308	Misk placed a translator on the platform beside the dying creature.	10
27	310	Misk motioned away the physicians and the other Priest-Kings and set the translator on the platform at its lowest volume.	10
27	320	"Long ago," she said, "Misk, my child, stole the egg of a male and now he has hidden it from Sarm and others who do not wish for there to be another Nest".	10
27	368	Misk approached her and touched her gently with his antennae.	10
28	6	Perhaps there were only a hundred Priest-Kings who rallied to the call of Misk and among them there were no more than a dozen silver tubes.	10
28	7	The headquarters for the forces of Misk lay in his compartment and there, pouring over the scent maps of the tunnels, he directed the placement of his defenses.	10
28	8	Thinking to overcome us with little difficulty, the forces of Sarm, mounted on transportation disks, swept through the tunnels and plazas, but the Priest-Kings of Misk, hidden in rooms, concealed behind portals, firing from the ramps and the roofs of buildings in the open complexes, soon took fierce...	10
28	91	I thought, even in spite of the cage plastic, she might be safer with the forces of Misk.	10
28	93	I did not wish to return periodically to the Vivarium to feed her and I supposed, if necessary, some suitable confinement might be found for her near Misk's headquarters.	10
28	136	Al-Ka guided the transportation disk out of the Vivarium and we began the journey toward Misk's compartment, the Gur Carriers following overhead.	10
28	149	Misk looked on in wonder as these men presented themselves to me and marched past.	10
28	156	One of the Fungus Growers looked up at Misk.	10
28	158	Misk's antennae curled.	10
28	160	"Yes," said Misk, "that is why my antennae curled.	10
28	162	And so it was that the former Muls, humans, bringing with them the basic food supplies of the Nest, began to flock to the side of the Priest-King Misk and his few cohorts.	10
28	163	The battle would, I supposed, given the undoubted stores of food available to Sarm and his forces, ultimately hinge on the firepower of the silver tubes, of which Misk's side had few, but still I conjectured that the skills and courage of former Muls might yet play their part in the fierce issues to...	10
28	166	When the lights flickered and then burst into clear, vital radiance there was a great cheer from the humans in Misk's camp, with the exception of the Gur Carriers, to whom the energy bulbs were not of great importance.	10
28	167	Intrigued by the hardness of the cage plastic encountered in the Vivarium I spoke to Misk and he and I, together with other Priest-Kings and humans, armored a fleet of transportation disks, which would be extremely effective if a silver tube were mounted in them and which, even if not armed, might y...	10
28	173	For example, at different times, returning from a raid, perhaps bringing another captured silver tube, no longer needed by one of Sarm's slain cohorts, I would find myself unremarked even by Misk though I might stand but feet from him.	10
28	177	Together the humans and the Priest-Kings of Misk made a remarkably effective fighting team.	10
28	180	Once a brave Priest-King of Misk's forces was slain and the humans who had fought with him wept.	10
28	183	As soon as it became clear to him that the Muls of the Fungus Chambers and the Pastures, and the Gur Carriers, were coming over to Misk he apparently assumed, for no good reason, that all Muls in the Nest were to be regarded as enemies.	10
28	184	Accordingly he set about systematically exterminating those who fell within the ranges of his silver tubes and this drove many Muls, who would undoubtedly have served him, and well, into Misk's camp.	10
28	189	* * * * One of the most marvelous ideas to further our cause was provided by Misk, who introduced me to what I had only heard rumored before, the Priest-Kings' mastery of the pervasive phenomena of gravity.	10
28	191	"Then we shall do it," said Misk, snapping his antennae.	10
28	197	Misk looked at me with puzzlement.	10
28	202	Yes, I asked myself, what of the transportation disk? I looked at Misk.	10
28	204	"No," said Misk.	10
28	207	I thought Misk was most annoying.	10
28	209	"On your old world," said Misk, "gravity is still as unexplored a natural phenomenon as electricity and magnetism once were, and yet you have mastered to some extent those phenomena—and we Priest-Kings have to some extent mastered gravity".	10
28	214	"What is gravity?" asked Misk.	10
28	217	"I do," said Misk, "let us get to work".	10
28	223	I do not think force, or charge, or any of the other expressions which occur to one's mind is a good translation for Ur, and I prefer to regard it as an expression best left untranslated, though perhaps one could say that Ur is whatever it was that satisfied the gravitational equations of Misk.	10
28	225	I would not have believed the ship was possible but I found it difficult to offer the arguments of my old world's physics against the fact of Misk's success.	10
28	234	Misk would pilot the craft upon occasion but it was, in fact, rather cramped for him and he could not stand within it, a fact that bothered him no end for a Priest-King, for some reason, becomes extremely agitated when he cannot stand.	10
28	237	On the other hand, since Misk did not construct the craft large enough for him to stand in, I suspect he did not really wish to take part in its adventures.	10
28	238	To be sure, a smaller dome would make the craft more maneuverable in the tunnels, but I think Misk did not trust himself to do battle with his former brethren.	10
28	240	Unfortunately Sarm's cohorts, and perhaps fortunately, most of Misk's, did not suffer from this perilous inhibition.	10
28	244	Accordingly it seemed to Misk, and I concurred, that an ultimatum should be issued to Sarm's troops and that, if possible, the ship should not be used in battle.	10
28	246	We were considering this matter when suddenly without warning one wall of Misk's compartment seemed suddenly to blur and lift and then silently to vanish into powder, so light and fine that some of it drifted upward to be withdrawn through the ventilator shaft through which used air was drawn from t...	10
28	247	Misk seized me and with the harrowing speed of the Priest-King leaped across the room, buffeting the case I had occupied ten yards across the chamber, bent down and flung up the trap and, carrying me, darted into the passage below.	10
28	249	Misk clung to the wall below the trap door, holding me to his thorax.	10
28	251	"Gravitational disruption," said Misk.	10
28	254	"Sarm could destroy the Nest," said Misk, "even the planet".	10
29	1	Anesthetization "Sarm is destroying the Ur bonding," said Misk.	10
29	3	"You will be slain," said Misk.	10
29	5	Misk obeyed and I crawled out of the trap and to my wonder gazed on the patterns of desolation that met my eyes.	10
29	6	Misk's compartment was gone, only powdery stains marking the place where the walls had been.	10
29	7	Through the very stone of the tunnel which lay outside Misk's compartment, now opened like a deep window, I could see the next large Nest complex which lay beyond.	10
29	14	I ran toward the workshop where Misk and I had left the ship we had fashioned from the transportation disk.	10
29	21	I took a long run and with a great bound cleared the ditch by perhaps two feet and was soon speeding on my way to Misk's workshop.	10
29	39	Had it truly been Vika of Treve? I raced to the workshop of Misk and flung open the double doors and leaped into the ship and secured the hatch, and in a moment it seemed the floor dropped a foot beneath me and the doors rushed forward.	10
29	158	Moreover, if I could bring it to the first Nest complex, Misk would probably destroy it on sight with his own disrupter.	10
29	159	Accordingly, it seemed safest to leave the ship and find some ventilator shaft and make my way back to Misk's area by means of it.	10
30	19	But most I feared how I might now be used to injure Misk and my friends.	10
30	20	I might be sent back among them to spy, to foil their plans, perhaps even to destroy, perhaps even to slay Misk, Al-Ka and Ba-Ta and other leaders, my friends all.	10
30	63	It turned out that Misk, not trusting Sarm from the very beginning, had prepared a disruption device which he would not have used had it not been for Sarm's employment of that devastating weapon.	10
30	64	But now that Misk's forces possessed a similar weapon Sarm, in fear, set his own similar devices aside.	10
30	65	There were new ships flying in the Nest, I understood, ships that had been built by Misk's men and disks that had now been armored by those of Sarm.	10
30	67	On the other hand the ships of the two forces tended, it seemed, to neutralize one another, and the war in the air, far from being decisive, as Misk and I had hoped, had begun to turn into the same stalemate that had developed on the ground.	10

Book 4. (2 results) Nomads of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
2	21	But I would not destroy the egg—not only because it contained life—but because it was important to my friend, whose name was Misk and is elsewhere spoken of; much of the life of that brave creature was devoted to the dream of a new life for Priest-Kings, a new stock, a new beginning; a...	10
7	208	Besides this, as far as I knew, Misk, who was my friend and between whom and myself there was Nest Trust, was still the highest born of the living Priest-Kings and the final authority in matters of importance in the Nest; I knew that Misk, if no other, would not have wished my death.	10

Book 9. (1 results) Marauders of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
1	95	He had been instrumental in the Nest War, and had earned the friendship and gratitude of the Priest-King, Misk, glorious, gentle Misk.	10