Book 26. (7 results) Witness of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
37
386
The peasant, I assumed, from the horrifying cry I had heard, must be beneath that terrible living hill of beasts.
37
387
Behind them I could see the bars of the gate.
37
388
The gate was down.
37
389
The darkness of the walk ringing the urt pool was behind.
37
390
I also became aware, vaguely now, of a woman's screaming.
37
391
That must be the Lady Ilene, whom I had met in the chamber of the commercial praetor, kept now, I knew, pending the arrival of her ransom, in the tiny cage suspended over the urt pool, that cage which had been for some time the residence of the Lady Constanzia, that cage which could be opened at the tug of a cord.
37
392
The lieutenant, the six men, two with lamps, stood back from the pile of frenzied urts.
The peasant, I assumed, from the horrifying cry I had heard, must be beneath that terrible living hill of beasts.
Behind them I could see the bars of the gate.
The gate was down.
The darkness of the walk ringing the urt pool was behind.
I also became aware, vaguely now, of a woman's screaming.
That must be the Lady Ilene, whom I had met in the chamber of the commercial praetor, kept now, I knew, pending the arrival of her ransom, in the tiny cage suspended over the urt pool, that cage which had been for some time the residence of the Lady Constanzia, that cage which could be opened at the tug of a cord.
The lieutenant, the six men, two with lamps, stood back from the pile of frenzied urts.
- (Witness of Gor, Chapter )