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A surface may seem placid, concealing currents, roiling below. Lord Grendel had repudiated the game of Lord Agamemnon, and substituted his own. But somewhere a new game might be in progress, with moves and pieces yet unnoticed. Lady Bina, in any event, as there was no sign of public concern or agitation at her removal from the House of a Hundred Corridors, as exhortations, alarms, proclamations, offers of rewards for her return or information leading to her return, and such, were not being broadcast throughout the city and countryside, as there was no hue from the public criers or letterings in red on the public boards, as the city was not swarming with soldiers and guardsmen searching for her, had come to reconcile herself, however, reluctantly, to the fact that her presence in the House of a Hundred Corridors had not been a benevolent sequestration prior to an eminent companionship but a detention, and one of a possibly dark import. The first sign of some contact between the factions of Lord Agamemnon and Lord Arcesilaus had occurred this morning, when Drusus Andronicus, on behalf of Surtak, had called on Lord Grendel to arrange for the return of Lyris, accepting, as was not surprising, Lord Grendel's proposal of an even exchange. Doubtless, from the point of view of Surtak, such an exchange was an indication of simple madness or an incredible lack of perception on the part of Lord Grendel, to return Lyris, an unusually beautiful Kur female, I had gathered, for a monstrosity, part human and part Kur, Eve. Surely Lord Grendel, as I well knew, was well aware of the charms of Lyris, and yet, as I recalled, he had asserted that she was nothing, no more than a tarsk, compared to Eve. - (Plunder of Gor, Chapter )