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"Barbarians are strange," said Haruki. It must not be thought odd, or unprecedented, that a large number of strangers, so to speak, would be present in a camp of this size. This was not a camp of flying columns or forced marches. Large camps, transient cities of tents, attract their multitudes, rather as a flowering meadow its cloudlike swarms of tiny, four-winged zars. Indeed, I had gathered from Pertinax and Ichiro this camp had not been moved in several days. I supposed this had something to do with logistics, given the need to acquire and store supplies for so large a force. On the other hand, it is possible that Lord Yamada's seeming dalliance was otherwise motivated; perhaps negotiations of some sort were underway; perhaps certain pieces in his game of war were being rearranged with scrupulous care; perhaps it was merely that the advance of his might, approaching now and again with its glacial implacability, might dismay a foe, eroding morale and precipitating desertions. - (Rebels of Gor, Chapter )