Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
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Quote
7
82
The tarnsmen alighted and ransacked the wagons, setting fire to them.
7
83
There was sharp fighting in the thicket.
7
84
Targo must have lost some eleven men, and some twenty of his girls were taken by the tarnsmen, but, after a bit, the tarnsmen withdrew.
7
85
Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly, unexpectedly, a quarrel from the crossbow of an invisible assailant.
7
86
Rask withdrew his men and, in moments, the captured girls bound across their saddles, and many of the other goods of Targo thrust into their packs, they took flight.
7
87
Targo had then gathered his men together, and his remaining goods, feminine and otherwise.
7
88
Nineteen of his girls, separately, taken deep into the thicket, had had their wrists bound together, either before their body or behind their back, about small trees.
The tarnsmen alighted and ransacked the wagons, setting fire to them.
There was sharp fighting in the thicket.
Targo must have lost some eleven men, and some twenty of his girls were taken by the tarnsmen, but, after a bit, the tarnsmen withdrew.
Tarnsmen, riders of the great tarns, called Brothers of the Wind, are masters of the open sky, fierce warriors whose battleground is the clouds and sky; they are not forest people; they do not care to stalk and hunt where, from the darkness of trees, from a canopy of foliage, they may meet suddenly, unexpectedly, a quarrel from the crossbow of an invisible assailant.
Rask withdrew his men and, in moments, the captured girls bound across their saddles, and many of the other goods of Targo thrust into their packs, they took flight.
Targo had then gathered his men together, and his remaining goods, feminine and otherwise.
Nineteen of his girls, separately, taken deep into the thicket, had had their wrists bound together, either before their body or behind their back, about small trees.
- (Captive of Gor, Chapter )