I had been disturbed by this conversation and without really intending it had begun to walk to the walls.
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I stood before the great gate of Tharna.
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The two giant beams that barred it were in place, beams that could only be moved by a team of broad tharlarion, draft lizards of Gor, or by a hundred slaves.
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The gates, bound with their bands of steel, studded with brass plates dull in the mist, the black wood looming over me in the dusk, were closed.
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"Welcome to Tharna," said a guard, leaning on his spear in the shadows of the gate.
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"Thank you, Warrior," I said, and turned back to the city.
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Behind me I heard him laugh, much the same bitter laugh that I had heard from the citizen.
I had been disturbed by this conversation and without really intending it had begun to walk to the walls.
I stood before the great gate of Tharna.
The two giant beams that barred it were in place, beams that could only be moved by a team of broad tharlarion, draft lizards of Gor, or by a hundred slaves.
The gates, bound with their bands of steel, studded with brass plates dull in the mist, the black wood looming over me in the dusk, were closed.
"Welcome to Tharna," said a guard, leaning on his spear in the shadows of the gate.
"Thank you, Warrior," I said, and turned back to the city.
Behind me I heard him laugh, much the same bitter laugh that I had heard from the citizen.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )