Book 3. (7 results) Priest-Kings of Gor (Context Quote)
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3
32
Then I heard the movement of chains and I saw that the two chains which fastened the larls were not hooked to rings in the stone but vanished within circular apertures.
3
33
Now the chains were being slowly drawn in, much to the obvious frustration of the beasts.
3
34
The place in which I found myself was considerably wider than the path on which I had trod, for the path had given suddenly onto a fairly large circular area in which I had found the chained larls.
3
35
One side of this area was formed by the sheer cliff which had been on my right and now curved about making a sort of cup of stone; the other side, on my left, lay partly open to the frightful drop below, but was partly enclosed by another cliff, the side of a second mountain, which impinged on the one I had been climbing.
3
36
The circular apertures into which the larls' chains were being drawn were located in these two cliffs.
3
37
As the chains were drawn back, the protesting larls were dragged to different sides.
3
38
Thus a passage of sorts was cleared between them, but the passage led only, as far as I could see, to a blank wall of stone.
Then I heard the movement of chains and I saw that the two chains which fastened the larls were not hooked to rings in the stone but vanished within circular apertures.
Now the chains were being slowly drawn in, much to the obvious frustration of the beasts.
The place in which I found myself was considerably wider than the path on which I had trod, for the path had given suddenly onto a fairly large circular area in which I had found the chained larls.
One side of this area was formed by the sheer cliff which had been on my right and now curved about making a sort of cup of stone; the other side, on my left, lay partly open to the frightful drop below, but was partly enclosed by another cliff, the side of a second mountain, which impinged on the one I had been climbing.
The circular apertures into which the larls' chains were being drawn were located in these two cliffs.
As the chains were drawn back, the protesting larls were dragged to different sides.
Thus a passage of sorts was cleared between them, but the passage led only, as far as I could see, to a blank wall of stone.
- (Priest-Kings of Gor, Chapter )