"I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros—but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder—and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city.
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I found my way to Port Kar, where I lived unpleasantly for some time on garbage floating in the canals and such other tidbits as I could find about".
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"How then are you a rich merchant?" I asked.
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"A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man—rather dreadful actually—with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass".
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I immediately recalled Elizabeth's description of the man who had examined her for fitness to bear the message collar—on Earth! "I have never seen that man," said Ha-Keel.
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"I wish that I might have".
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Saphrar shivered.
"I was once," continued Saphrar, "a perfumer of Tyros—but I one day left the shop it seems inadvertently with some pounds of the nectar of talenders concealed beneath my tunic in a bladder—and for that my ear was notched and I was exiled from the city.
I found my way to Port Kar, where I lived unpleasantly for some time on garbage floating in the canals and such other tidbits as I could find about".
"How then are you a rich merchant?" I asked.
"A man met me," said Saphrar, "a tall man—rather dreadful actually—with a face as gray as stone and eyes like glass".
I immediately recalled Elizabeth's description of the man who had examined her for fitness to bear the message collar—on Earth! "I have never seen that man," said Ha-Keel.
"I wish that I might have".
Saphrar shivered.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )