Book 6. (7 results) Raiders of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
8
31
Insects, undistracted, hovered about his head, moving in his hair.
8
32
The oar-master, crying out, leaped up the stairs to the tiller deck, and angrily seized the helmsman by the shoulders, shaking him, then saw the eyes.
8
33
He released the man, who fell from the tiller.
8
34
The oar-master cried out in fear, summoning warriors who gathered on the tiller deck.
8
35
The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh.
8
36
I do not think the men of Port Kar, at that time, realized the nature of the weapon that had slain their helmsman.
8
37
They knew only that he had been alive, and then dead, and that his head now bore two unaccountable wounds, deep, opposed, centerless circles, each mounted at the scarlet apex of a stained triangle.
Insects, undistracted, hovered about his head, moving in his hair.
The oar-master, crying out, leaped up the stairs to the tiller deck, and angrily seized the helmsman by the shoulders, shaking him, then saw the eyes.
He released the man, who fell from the tiller.
The oar-master cried out in fear, summoning warriors who gathered on the tiller deck.
The arrow from the great yellow bow, that of supple Ka-la-na, had passed through the head of the man, losing itself a hundred yards distant, dropping unseen into the marsh.
I do not think the men of Port Kar, at that time, realized the nature of the weapon that had slain their helmsman.
They knew only that he had been alive, and then dead, and that his head now bore two unaccountable wounds, deep, opposed, centerless circles, each mounted at the scarlet apex of a stained triangle.
- (Raiders of Gor, Chapter )