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The enemy had not anticipated the suddenness of our motion, as we stole a start, nor, I think, understood the speed which we could achieve, even with the imperfect condition of the Dorna. - (Avengers of Gor, Chapter 53, Sentence #277)

I then slashed my hand downward, and the keleustes brought his mallet down on the great drum. The Tesephone leapt forward, slipped past the Dorna, tautened the line between herself and the Dorna, was arrested by the line, and then, smoothly, forcefully, began to draw against it, giving impetus to her fellow. At the same time, the rowers of the Dorna bent to their oars, and the Dorna, partly towed, partly under its own power, fell into place behind the Tesephone. The enemy had not anticipated the suddenness of our motion, as we stole a start, nor, I think, understood the speed which we could achieve, even with the imperfect condition of the Dorna. We profited, as well, from the confusion and delay attendant on recovering their Admiral. These factors gave us the start we needed to slip into the lowering dusk. Shortly thereafter, as darkness fell, I had the two lanterns removed from the sterns of the Dorna and Tesephone and mounted on two separate buoyant frameworks, fastened together with some sixty or seventy feet of line. - (Avengers of Gor)