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How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalled, too, that I had seen tracks on a rainy afternoon in the palace, and had sensed in a corridor the odor of wet fur, a particular scent, one I had never forgotten, one I had hitherto encountered, at various times and places, the scent of Kur. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 27, Sentence #181)

"I know little of Priest-Kings, or their laws, or thoughts," said Haruki, "or that there are Priest-Kings, or that they think, but there are many ways to communicate quickly, to transmit even complex messages, explaining situations, issuing instructions, indicating directions, and such. In daylight, flags may be used, and mirrors, and at night, the movements of double torches, or the light of a single lantern, revealed, and shielded, alternately". "Yes," I said, dismally, resigned, "yes". How quick I had been to suppose illegal deceit and even perilous, surreptitious dishonesty, a betrayal of principles and understandings, a departure from implicit rules without which a game, even a mighty game on which might depend worlds, would be forsworn and treacherously subverted! But I recalled, too, that I had seen tracks on a rainy afternoon in the palace, and had sensed in a corridor the odor of wet fur, a particular scent, one I had never forgotten, one I had hitherto encountered, at various times and places, the scent of kur. "I am puzzled," said Haruki. "In what way?" I asked. "Why do you think Lord Yamada has initiated this campaign?" asked Haruki. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter 27)