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No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table. - (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 2, Sentence #148)

Five blades leaped from the sheath with but one sound. Hup, whining, crawled away from the sand on his hands and knees. The first Warrior lunged toward the Assassin but in the darkness of the side of the room, in the dim light of the tharlarion lamps, it was difficult to tell what happened. No one heard the striking of sword steel, but all saw the turning body of the man with the missing teeth falling sprawled over the low table. Then the dark shape of the Assassin seemed to move like a swift shadow in the room, and each of the three Warriors leaped toward him, but seemed to fail to find him, and another man, without even the flash of sword steel, dropped to his knees and fell forward in the pit of sand; the other two men struck as well, but their blades did not even meet that of the Assassin, who did not seem to deign to cross steel with them; the third man, soundlessly, turned away from the blade of the Assassin, seeming surprised, took two steps and fell; the fourth man lunged but failed to meet the shadow that seemed to move to one side, and now, before the fourth man had fallen, the shadow had resheathed its blade. Now the Assassin picked up the coin of gold and looked at the startled and sweating Portus. Then the Assassin threw the coin to the feet of Hup the Fool. - (Assassin of Gor, Chapter 2)