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One council member, however, benign Tarchon, skilled with the lyre, advocated its acceptance on two grounds. First, its acceptance would reduce the strain on stores of food and water within the walls. Second, the town had no right to deny individual citizens the right in such a matter to choose for themselves. As I later learned, not having been permitted to attend or address the council, the view of Tarchon was accepted. The next morning some four hundred male citizens of Mytilene abandoned the town of their Home Stone and, rejoicing at their deliverance from danger, and encouraging others to follow their example, exited the great gate. Shortly thereafter they were shackled and put to work, with mercenaries, on the first and, later, the second, of two siege ditches, by which the town was then twice encircled. On the eighteenth day of the siege, the work done, within sight of the walls, they were decapitated. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter )