About a pasang distant we could see new forces of the Paravaci forming on the crest of a sweeping gradient.
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The sound of their bosk horns was welcome to us, signaling the retreat of those at the wagons.
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Bloody, covered with sweat, gasping, we saw the living Paravaci draw back, falling back between the newly forming lines on the gradient above.
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I issued orders swiftly and exhausted men poured from beneath and between the wagons to haul as many of the fallen kaiila and riders as possible from the wagons, that there might not be a wall of dying animals and men giving access to the height of our wagons.
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Scarcely had we cleared the ground before the wagons when the Paravaci bosk horns sounded again and another wave of kaiila and riders, lances set, raced towards us.
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Four times they charged thus and four times we held them back.
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My men and those of Harold had now been decimated and there were few that had not lost blood.
About a pasang distant we could see new forces of the Paravaci forming on the crest of a sweeping gradient.
The sound of their bosk horns was welcome to us, signaling the retreat of those at the wagons.
Bloody, covered with sweat, gasping, we saw the living Paravaci draw back, falling back between the newly forming lines on the gradient above.
I issued orders swiftly and exhausted men poured from beneath and between the wagons to haul as many of the fallen kaiila and riders as possible from the wagons, that there might not be a wall of dying animals and men giving access to the height of our wagons.
Scarcely had we cleared the ground before the wagons when the Paravaci bosk horns sounded again and another wave of kaiila and riders, lances set, raced towards us.
Four times they charged thus and four times we held them back.
My men and those of Harold had now been decimated and there were few that had not lost blood.
- (Nomads of Gor, Chapter )