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The skies were clear. Accordingly, given the nature of men, life began to form itself again in the ancient patterns of coming and going, farming and hunting, fishing and gathering, gaining and losing, accumulating and squandering, building and destroying, planning and plotting, loving and hating. Peasants returned to their villages; goods and wives returned to their houses and holdings; ornaments and coins were unearthed; fields were tended; palisades were rebuilt; gates were repaired; traders sought customers; and warriors, hungry and barefoot, weary, weapons in their sashes, drifted back toward rice and daimyos. "You see your danger," I had said to Lords Nishida and Okimoto, "thousands of warriors and Ashigaru". "The road was clear, there was no resistance," said Lord Okimoto. "Does that not seem to you odd," I asked, "that you would not see the enemy until you were deep within his country, a hostile country, and far from reinforcements and supply lines?" "It is a trap?" said Lord Okimoto. "Obviously," I said. - (Rebels of Gor)