Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
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But I could not understand why Priest-Kings should wish me slain.
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Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die.
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It did not seem possible.
"Ah!" said Kutaituchik.
"I did not know".
My mind was whirling.
Now I understood, as I had only suspected before, why an English-speaking girl was necessary to bear the collar, that she might be the device whereby I would be singled out from the hundreds and thousands among the wagons, and so be marked for death.
But I could not understand why Priest-Kings should wish me slain.
Was I not engaged, in a sense, in their work? Had I not come to the Wagon Peoples on their behalf, to search for the doubtless golden sphere that was the last egg of Priest-Kings, the final hope of their race? Now they wished me to die.
It did not seem possible.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )