"Tal!" called Portus Canio, pleasantly enough, from before the bench of the wagon box, where he stood.
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Ellen saw the six riders, on tharlarion, in the hands of two of which were the leashes of two gray hunting sleen, which crouched down, their rear haunches trembling, as though readying themselves for a charge.
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Their hunt had been successful, and they were now ready for a reward, a feeding.
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"By the priest-kings," whispered a man, regarding the five beasts who, some yards apart, were in advance of the riders.
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Ellen recognized one of the beasts, he spoken of as Kardok.
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She knew that it, and at least some of the others, could speak, or, at least, make sounds which might, with some transpositions, be understood as Gorean, at least by those she had taken to be their masters, or, better, by at least one of them, for only one of them, she recalled, had seemed to translate for the beasts.
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"In the matter of the quarrels," said Portus Canio, softly, to the two bowmen, one on each side of the wagon, "use your discretion".
"Tal!" called Portus Canio, pleasantly enough, from before the bench of the wagon box, where he stood.
Ellen saw the six riders, on tharlarion, in the hands of two of which were the leashes of two gray hunting sleen, which crouched down, their rear haunches trembling, as though readying themselves for a charge.
Their hunt had been successful, and they were now ready for a reward, a feeding.
"By the priest-kings," whispered a man, regarding the five beasts who, some yards apart, were in advance of the riders.
Ellen recognized one of the beasts, he spoken of as Kardok.
She knew that it, and at least some of the others, could speak, or, at least, make sounds which might, with some transpositions, be understood as Gorean, at least by those she had taken to be their masters, or, better, by at least one of them, for only one of them, she recalled, had seemed to translate for the beasts.
"In the matter of the quarrels," said Portus Canio, softly, to the two bowmen, one on each side of the wagon, "use your discretion".
- (Prize of Gor, Chapter )