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They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own right. - (Players of Gor, Chapter 19, Sentence #3)

Too, from outside the palace, from the prison area, and from various parts of the city, I could hear the ringing of alarm bars. A Lattice Has Been Forced in, from the Outside "Hold!" cried a guardsman, one of two, at his post on one of the long, arching, graceful, railless, narrow bridges interlaced among the towers of Brundisium. Such bridges are a feature of many Gorean cities. They are easy to defend and serve to link various towers at various levels, towers which in a time of attack or siege may serve on given levels or in isolation, if the defenders choose to block or destroy the bridges, as independent keeps, each an almost impregnable, well-stocked fortress in its own right. In Brundisium there were eleven such towers. In many of the high cities there are many more. In Ar, for example, there are hundreds. - (Players of Gor)