Book 7. (7 results) Captive of Gor (Context Quote)
Chapter #
Sentence #
Quote
17
477
He does not buy them.
17
478
But I fear I may not be taken from Bosk of Port Kar.
17
479
He is said himself to be a master swordsman, much feared, and his house is strong, and there are men here, some hundreds, who pledge their lives and their blades to him.
17
480
This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar.
17
481
And surely Rask, a captain of Treve, cannot bring the tarn cavalries of Treve to distant Port Kar, for a mere slave girl, and, too, such action would mean long and bloody war.
17
482
I am, unfortunately, safe in this house.
17
483
It is my home, and my prison.
He does not buy them.
But I fear I may not be taken from Bosk of Port Kar.
He is said himself to be a master swordsman, much feared, and his house is strong, and there are men here, some hundreds, who pledge their lives and their blades to him.
This house has withstood a siege of thousands, within the last two years, in the time of the warrings of the Ubars and the council of Captains, and the great engagement between the fleet of Port Kar and that of Tyros and Cos, on the twenty-fifth of Se'Kara, 10,120 Contasta Ar, from the Founding of Ar.
And surely Rask, a captain of Treve, cannot bring the tarn cavalries of Treve to distant Port Kar, for a mere slave girl, and, too, such action would mean long and bloody war.
I am, unfortunately, safe in this house.
It is my home, and my prison.
- (Captive of Gor, Chapter )