Now that it is told I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains.
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Five days from now I shall stand before the black gate in the palisades that ring the holy mountains.
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I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar.
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I shall deliver this manuscript to some member of the caste of Scribes whom I shall find at the Fair of En'Kara at the base of the Sardar.
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From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings.
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They have cursed me and my city.
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They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
Now that it is told I must begin my journey to the Sardar Mountains.
Five days from now I shall stand before the black gate in the palisades that ring the holy mountains.
I shall strike with my spear upon the gate and the gate will open, and as I enter I will hear the mournful sound of the great hollow bar that hangs by the gate, signifying that another of the Men Below the Mountains, another mortal man, has dared to enter the Sardar.
I shall deliver this manuscript to some member of the caste of Scribes whom I shall find at the Fair of En'Kara at the base of the Sardar.
From that point whether or not it survives will depend like so many other things in this barbaric world I have come to love—on the inscrutable will of the Priest-Kings.
They have cursed me and my city.
They have taken from me my father and the girl I love, and my friends, and have given me suffering and hardship, and peril, and yet I feel that in some strange way in spite of myself I have served them—that it was their will that I came to Tharna.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )