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As scavengers flee from the killing beast come to reclaim his prize, as urts speed from the path of the stalking larl, as bandits hasten to elude nearing, searching, avenging guardsmen, so the thieves, brigands, rowdies, miscreants, cheats, liars, cowards, and criminals of Port Kar, men without a Home Stone, prepared to burn and abandon their city. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #55)

Panic, like wind and darkness, swept the streets. Goods were hastily gathered together, crated, and bundled. Ships were frenziedly readied for escape. As scavengers flee from the killing beast come to reclaim his prize, as urts speed from the path of the stalking larl, as bandits hasten to elude nearing, searching, avenging guardsmen, so the thieves, brigands, rowdies, miscreants, cheats, liars, cowards, and criminals of Port Kar, men without a home stone, prepared to burn and abandon their city. In the midst of this confusion, fear, and chaos, an amazing, startling rumor was suddenly abroad, first whispered, from ear to ear, and then shouted out, ringing from wall to wall. Men who had betrayed home stones, men who had abandoned them, men who had, by deeds or words, dishonored home stones, men who had lived for years, lost and separate, alone and miserable, without home stones, looked suddenly at one another, wildly. Port Kar had a home stone! Men then, resolute and joyous, no longer fled, but, weeping, embraced one another as fellows and brothers, and rushed to the great arsenal to seize oars and take their places on the rowing benches of waiting ships. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11)