On whose side, so to speak, was this mysterious, unpredictable, ungoverned Tarl Cabot? Was he an agent of priest-kings? Was he an agent of Kurii? If he was an agent, it seems he was his own agent, or an agent of honor, for, long ago, it seems, he and Zarendargar had shared paga.
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In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals to be displayed on the holding of his friend, Samos, of Port Kar.
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Tarl Cabot remained at large, so to speak, for some time.
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The surveillance of priest-kings is rather efficient, as we have reason to know, but it is also, as we have reason to know, far from perfect, particularly so in recent years.
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Perhaps this has to do with transitions or dislocations in the Sardar, such as have been occasionally rumored.
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But perhaps not.
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It is hard to know.
On whose side, so to speak, was this mysterious, unpredictable, ungoverned Tarl Cabot? Was he an agent of priest-kings? Was he an agent of Kurii? If he was an agent, it seems he was his own agent, or an agent of honor, for, long ago, it seems, he and Zarendargar had shared paga.
In any event Tarl Cabot, having returned from the Barrens, and having learned later of his putative outlawry, resolved to leave the maritime city of Port Kar, only to return when it might be safe to do so, this intelligence to be gathered from agreed-upon secret signals to be displayed on the holding of his friend, Samos, of Port Kar.
Tarl Cabot remained at large, so to speak, for some time.
The surveillance of priest-kings is rather efficient, as we have reason to know, but it is also, as we have reason to know, far from perfect, particularly so in recent years.
Perhaps this has to do with transitions or dislocations in the Sardar, such as have been occasionally rumored.
But perhaps not.
It is hard to know.
- (Kur of Gor, Chapter )