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His will, his word, in the kennel decrees law. He may, if he choose, stake out, or whip or slay a man who fails his quota of gathered salt, or strikes a fellow, administering fierce, dread discipline as the whim may seize him, and yet, should he himself be slain, his slayer is not punished, but accedes to his authority and, in his place, becomes master of the kennel. How is it, I wondered, that men survive at Klima, and that they do not die at one another's throats? I looked at the heads of the lelts, and, scattered among them, the heads of the pale salamanders, thrust from the dark water, attracted by the movement, or the awareness of the light or heat, of the lamps. They had been with the raft now for better than an ahn, appearing some quarter of an ahn after we had steadied the sluggish vessel in place. It is difficult to bespeak the darkness of the pit. T'Zshal slept. Beside him lay the lance; in his reddish sash was thrust the dagger of his office. - (Tribesmen of Gor, Chapter )