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Then began the seeking of blood, the publication of the proscription lists, and the search for profiteers, traitors, and collaborators. - (Quarry of Gor, Chapter 11, Sentence #246)

It was a time of tyranny, exploitation, misery, uncertainty, fear, deprivation, treachery, and profiteering. Then, somehow, the figure of Marlenus had reappeared, and the city rose, violent and savage, eager and vengeful. The occupying forces, in days of terror and blood, overwhelmed by a massive revolt of a swarming populace, armed sometimes with no more than pointed sticks, staves, clubs, torches, and fragments of pavement, fled. Then began the seeking of blood, the publication of the proscription lists, and the search for profiteers, traitors, and collaborators. During the confusion and chaos of the restoration of Marlenus, Talena, and certain others high amongst the betrayers of the city, disappeared. It was said that the reward for her capture was ten thousand tarns of gold, tarn disks of double weight. With such a sum, I understood, one might buy cities. - (Quarry of Gor)