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Aktis

Book 36. (242 results) Avengers of Gor

Chapter #	Sentence #	Quote	Confidence
20	31	"My name is Aktis," said Aktis.	10
23	57	"I am Aktis," said Aktis, rising.	10
23	72	"How is it then that you have heard of Aktis?" asked Aktis.	10
2	1	What Occurred that Night, on a Remote Beach on Chios "Thurnock," I said, "this is Aktis, of the village of Nicosia".	10
2	7	"Tal," said Aktis.	10
2	11	"How is it then," asked Thurnock, "that this scrawny verr, clad in filthy rags, perhaps ill fed, is still here, not slain, not chained like a girl, not carried off for the benches or quarries?" "I fled, large one," said Aktis.	10
2	13	"At the time it seemed the thing to do," said Aktis.	10
2	14	Aktis was not a small man, but Thurnock was unusually large, a boulder of a man, with arms like oars.	10
2	15	"Aktis," I said, "those on their feet here, greeting you, honoring you, standing about the fires, are my men, my friends".	10
2	16	I then introduced Aktis to several of the men about, including Clitus, master of the trident, and handsome Tab, gifted with the sword.	10
2	19	"Aktis," I said, "as is Thurnock, is of the peasants, the most fundamental of all castes, the ox on which the Home Stone rests".	10
2	22	"At least," said Aktis, "I do not have a large tooth, misshapen, which hangs over my lip, like a fang".	10
2	25	"Doubtless it appeals to women," said Aktis.	10
2	28	"I am not the stranger here," said Aktis.	10
2	29	"I beached the Dorna and Tesephone upwind," said Thurnock, with a look at Aktis, suggesting this decision might have been judiciously motivated.	10
2	34	"I am not a spy," said Aktis.	10
2	38	"None," said Aktis.	10
2	39	"How many did you slay?" "And how many," asked Thurnock, "did the braver folks, the true men, of your village dispatch to the Cities of Dust?" "None that I know of," said Aktis.	10
2	43	"They came unexpectedly, swiftly, with violence, chains, and fire, and swept all before them," said Aktis.	10
2	44	"Perhaps," I said to Thurnock, "you could teach the bow to Aktis".	10
2	46	"I am strong," said Aktis.	10
2	59	"As I understand this," said Aktis, "you are Bosk of Port Kar, and your fellows are of Port Kar, as well".	10
2	62	"Why should they do so?" asked Aktis.	10
2	65	"If you are truly the dreaded Bosk of Port Kar," said Aktis, "why do you object to intrusions and raids which cause you no harm and can do little but enhance your own reputation as a pillager and menace?" "Perhaps because I am pleased to do so," I said.	10
2	68	"You are in danger here," said Aktis.	10
2	72	"And these men, your fellows?" asked Aktis.	10
2	74	"You are in unfriendly waters," said Aktis.	10
2	76	"I do not think you are truly Bosk of Port Kar," said Aktis.	10
2	102	"As I understand this," said Tab to Aktis, "you survived the attack on Nicosia".	10
2	103	"Yes," said Aktis.	10
2	105	"I was there," said Aktis.	10
2	107	"Six ships, four larger and two smaller," said Aktis.	10
2	110	"True," said Aktis.	10
2	124	"Thank the Priest-Kings," said Aktis, "that you have not encountered the intruders.	10
2	127	"You are outweighed, outnumbered," said Aktis, "in both ships and men".	10
2	129	"You are far overmatched," said Aktis.	10
2	134	"Cos is at war with Port Kar," said Aktis.	10
2	146	Did the Priest-Kings not regard us as an interesting, but simple, primitive, short-sighted species? Who knows what might come of putting matches, bombs, and dynamite in nurseries, and madhouses? "Go home, while you can," said Aktis.	10
2	149	"Clitus," I said, "if you will, see to the feeding and clothing of our guest, Aktis, he of the village of Nicosia".	10
2	150	"I want nothing from those of Port Kar," said Aktis.	10
2	155	"Tell me, Aktis," I said.	10
3	1	We Set Course for Thera; I Speak with Aktis; We Encounter a Surprise at Sea I stood on the stern castle of the Dorna, Builder's Glass in hand, above the twin rudders, the small, swift Tesephone, shallow-drafted, capable of negotiating rivers, abeam.	10
3	30	Who could allege, or know of, or confidently state, the destruction of a village or town prior to the event, unless one were somehow privy to the intentions of raiders contemplating such an attack? "How is Aktis doing?" I asked Thurnock.	10
3	36	"Captain?" asked Aktis.	10
3	39	"It is a fearful, terrible weapon," said Aktis.	10
3	50	"Its possessor, then," said Aktis, "might be a raider".	10
3	89	"One does not know what one will meet at sea," said Aktis.	10
3	107	"And when do they sleep?" asked Aktis.	10
3	109	"It is a busy place," said Aktis.	10
3	114	"There are women there?" asked Aktis.	10
3	116	"They are so brazen, so shameless?" asked Aktis.	10
3	123	"I am not to think of free women?" asked Aktis.	10
3	131	"Free women are exalted and priceless," said Aktis.	10
3	138	"We are days from Sybaris," said Aktis.	10
3	140	"I shall look forward to Sybaris," said Aktis, "and I shall hope I may prove to be of service to you there".	10
3	142	"May I, Captain," said Aktis, "return now to the bench?" "Do so," I said.	10
3	145	"Rest oars!" "What land is here?" I asked Aktis, who was partly down the steps to the deck.	10
4	7	"How proceeds Aktis in his lessons?" I asked Thurnock.	10
5	71	"Aktis once spoke of six ships in the attack on Nicosia, four large ships, and two smaller.	10
6	195	"Aktis is diligently employed, is he not?" I asked Thurnock.	10
6	219	"Look," said Thurnock, "Aktis enters the tavern".	10
6	220	Aktis was now within the portal, and was looking about, scanning the tables.	10
6	222	I lifted my arm, and this caught the eye of Aktis, and he began to make his way toward our table.	10
6	230	"Tal," I said to Aktis, who now joined us, cross-legged, at the table.	10
6	232	"None," said Aktis, dismally.	10
6	235	"Perhaps," said Aktis.	10
6	245	"Enjoy the dance," I encouraged Aktis.	10
6	247	Aktis' eyes were dull.	10
6	261	The dancer, delighted, and triumphant, prepared to swirl away but Aktis, who had scarcely moved and whom she had scarcely noticed, suddenly cried out "There!" and lunged across the table his left hand clutching the belt, sweetly low on her hips, from which dangled rings, cheap, drilled coins, trinke...	10
6	266	"You were quicker than I!" I pulled loose the hand of Aktis.	10
6	270	"I am sure of it!" said Aktis.	10
6	272	"Captain?" said Aktis.	10
6	285	Aktis leaned across the table.	10
6	319	"The inquiries of Aktis in the markets may have been noted," said Clitus.	10
6	350	Thurnock left the tavern, and Clitus and Aktis, the latter supplied with a well-earned copper tarsk, left the table to inspect the goods in the vicinity of the paga vat.	10
8	56	At this point there was a cry from Aktis, who had been set high amongst the rocks, with a glass of the Builders.	10
8	60	In a few moments I, followed by Clitus, had clambered up the rocks to join Aktis, who handed me the glass of the Builders.	10
8	62	"Yes," I said, returning the glass to Aktis.	10
8	73	"Is there time?" asked Aktis.	10
8	75	"We could flee inland," said Aktis.	10
8	82	"I fear there is little time," said Aktis.	10
8	84	"I trust so," said Aktis.	10
8	86	"If we do not soon depart," said Aktis, "I fear any destination will be unreached".	10
8	88	"You have planned that?" said Aktis.	10
8	90	"Why Nicosia?" asked Aktis.	10
8	97	His name is Aktis.	10
8	100	"What will we do in Nicosia?" inquired Aktis.	10
8	102	"It seems you contemplate war," said Aktis.	10
8	104	"I am truly eager to return to my oar," said Aktis.	10
8	106	Aktis turned about, and began, running, half sliding, to descend the slope.	10
10	4	It was in this establishment that I had first heard of the destruction of Nicosia prior to its actual destruction, and in which Aktis had noted baubles and trinkets on a dancer's belt much like those which had figured in the trade goods of the raiders' advance scout, he posing as an itinerant mercha...	10
12	4	"Aktis approaches," said Clitus.	10
12	15	"They have landed," said Aktis, hailing us, calling out, his arm lifted, as he trudged through the sand toward us.	10
12	20	"Six ships, many men, as at Nicosia," gasped Aktis.	10
12	30	Two days ago, Aktis, who served as our lookout and scout, had followed my instructions, making his way to the supposed location of The Village of Flowing Gold, leaving a communication, to be discovered by the raiders.	10
13	27	Aktis, with his bow, had accounted for two of these.	10
13	29	I did not think it would be wise to let Aktis handle prisoners.	10
13	139	"Demur, attempt to flee," urged Aktis, putting an arrow to his bow.	10
13	163	"Take comfort in the thought of dying rich," said Aktis.	10
13	165	"Remember Nicosia," said Aktis.	10
13	170	"Aktis left a message for the raiders at their march's end," said Thurnock.	10
15	28	"Thurnock and Aktis petition to be sent to Sybaris," I said.	10
19	159	"In the possession of a man named Aktis," said the first.	10
19	175	As far as I knew Aktis did not either.	10
19	184	"The man we seek, Aktis, he who is the alleged bearer of the bow," said the leader, "is a peasant, we think, of Nicosia.	10
19	197	"Aktis must walk with care," said Clitus.	10
19	206	"But the guardsmen, or soldiers, were seeking Aktis," said Clitus.	10
20	1	The Meeting in the Long Tent "Dear friends," said Aktis, "caste brothers, members of the first and greatest of castes, members of the mightiest of castes, members of the caste upon which the Home Stone rests, be welcome".	10
20	7	"I have met many of you personally," said Aktis, "and have urged the case of solidarity and manliness".	10
20	10	"Have you cleared this meeting with the Mayors of the fair?" "We are not on the grounds of the fair," said Aktis, "nor are we within the pomerium of Mytilene".	10
20	17	"It is no sedition to survive," said Aktis.	10
20	24	"You think you are in no danger," said Aktis, "because you see no danger.	10
20	32	"The Aktis for whom guardsmen search?" asked a man.	10
20	33	"It is so," said Aktis.	10
20	35	"Deliver him to the law!" "Hear me, oh my caste brothers!" called Aktis.	10
20	38	"It is true I am Aktis, he for whom your enemies seek".	10
20	40	"I am of Nicosia," said Aktis, "of which village some of you have heard".	10
20	42	"It was set upon by raiders proclaiming themselves to be of Port Kar," said Aktis.	10
20	45	"Its Home Stone, hidden, survives," said Aktis.	10
20	48	"Yes," said Aktis, "Nicosia lives, but it is bloodied, emptied, and scarred.	10
20	57	"Next," cried Aktis, "will it be you who hears axes on the gate? Will it be your fields which will smoke to the sky, your homes which will be consumed in flame, your blood upon the hearth?" "Summon guardsmen!" cried a man.	10
20	58	"He has been seen with a forbidden weapon!" "Yes!" cried Aktis, "and so see me once more!" He seized up a long package, tore aside the wrappings, and lifted, displayed, and brandished his bow.	10
20	63	"And who has forbidden it to you?" asked Aktis.	10
20	75	He then called out, "We seek a villain wanted on Chios, and elsewhere, a spreader of sedition, a fomenter of discontent, the harborer of a forbidden weapon, an Aktis, once from that nest of osts, Nicosia".	10
20	76	"I am he," said Aktis, from toward the front of the tent.	10
20	79	"Put down yours," said Aktis.	10
20	81	"No," responded Aktis.	10
20	83	"Not to me," said Aktis.	10
20	87	"I decline," said Aktis, "in the name of the Home Stone of Nicosia".	10
20	88	"Do you wish us to fall upon all here," said the leader, "putting every man to the sword?" "I would not do so," said Aktis, in a voice which touched my spine with ice.	10
20	89	"Seize him, bind him!" said the leader to the crowd, but even those who had disputed, or objected to, the words of Aktis did not stir.	10
20	93	"Dear caste brothers," said Aktis, "it is late.	10
20	97	It was undoubtedly clear then to the leader, and his men, that a field of fire had been cleared between them and the arrows of Aktis.	10
20	100	Given the seated crowd and the inevitable impediments imposed on movement, I speculated that Aktis could discharge four, and perhaps five, arrows before anyone could reach him.	10
20	104	"Lurius of Jad, tyrant of Cos, grows fat in his palace," said Aktis.	10
20	117	"You have no authorization from Lurius of Cos, to apply decimation, even to intrude in this place," said Aktis.	10
20	119	"I have a warrant for the arrest of Aktis of Nicosia," said the leader of the uniformed men, slapping his hand on his wallet.	10
20	120	"If so, display it, now," said Aktis.	10
20	124	"To soldiers of Cos?" asked Aktis.	10
20	126	"Regulars of Cos?" said Aktis.	10
20	128	"Produce them!" said Aktis.	10
20	130	"Regulars of Cos are spearmen," said Aktis, "veterans of the defense and attack of two spears, long spears and casting spears, masters of the fence of death, stalwarts whose lines of braced spears deter even tharlarion.	10
20	136	I was pleased that Aktis had noticed these things.	10
20	138	"Now," said Aktis, "I call your attention to this bow.	10
20	148	Aktis then bent and unstrung the weapon, and the crowd in the tent, uneasily, and looking at one another, rose to their feet.	10
20	153	"Without the bow," said Aktis, "it is far more likely your villages will be burned".	10
20	154	"Flee," a man advised Aktis.	10
20	155	"Contact me, at Nicosia," said Aktis.	10
20	162	Then only Aktis, Thurnock, Clitus, and I were left in the tent.	10
20	163	"You did well," I said to Aktis.	10
20	164	"I have failed," said Aktis.	10
20	167	"It is easier to plow around a stump," said Aktis, "than remove it".	10
22	106	"And our Aktis, one of our oarsmen, is the subject of a search by guardsmen," said Sakim, "that having to do with the possession of a forbidden weapon".	10
22	107	"They will not find Aktis at the fair," I said.	10
22	112	"Peasants who seek some word from Aktis, or wish to obtain samples of the great bow, are to contact him there".	10
23	2	"We have done what we could," said Aktis, fletching an arrow with the feathers of the sea kite.	10
23	43	"Anyone may do so," said Aktis.	10
23	56	"I seek one called Aktis," he said, "who, I understand, spoke of unsettling matters at the Fair of the Farther Islands".	10
23	70	"I take it," said Aktis "that you were at the fair at Mytilene".	10
24	2	"There has been enough time to arm and train hundreds but only four gave answer to the call of Aktis at the fair.	10
24	8	"What shall we do, Captain?" asked Aktis.	10
25	16	To my disappointment, the islands' Peasantry had not responded, stirred by Aktis' pleadings, flooding to the ruins of Nicosia to organize for a common, redoubtable defense of their lives, property, and land.	10
27	1	The Gambling House of the Golden Urt; What Occurred Therein "It is like a circle of fire," said Aktis.	10
27	9	"I have won!" cried Aktis, clutching his ostracon.	10
27	17	"I merely chose a color and number," marveled Aktis, "and I now have ten tarsk-bits".	10
27	21	"Surely not," said Aktis.	10
27	23	"Do you think he cannot read the signals from the cashier, particularly when more valuable ostraca are purchased? Have you not noticed that sometimes the wheel spins differently than at other times, that it occasionally slows earlier and so stops sooner?" "When I wager anew," said Aktis, "I shall ha...	10
27	25	"Had I bought a notched copper-tarsk ostracon," said Aktis, "I could have won ten copper tarsks".	10
27	27	"Had I bought a silver-edged ostracon," said Aktis, "I would now have ten silver tarsks".	10
27	29	"Yes," said Aktis.	10
27	31	"Of course," said Aktis.	10
27	33	"I feel lucky," said Aktis.	10
27	35	"I shall wager again," said Aktis, "but, as I am sensible and realize I might lose, no more than a copper tarsk".	10
27	37	"Certainly," said Aktis.	10
27	40	"Leave Aktis to learn the lessons of life, the mathematics of chance, even should the wheel be honest".	10
27	113	"That is not Aktis, is it?" asked Thurnock.	10
27	205	"Collect Aktis on your way out," I said.	10
27	210	"Not really," said Aktis.	10
27	212	"I have," said Aktis.	10
27	216	"You saw," said Aktis, "that for a single tarsk-bit I won ten tarsk-bits".	10
28	79	"Aktis," I said, "bring a loaf of bread, a bota of water".	10
30	2	Thurnock, Clitus, and Aktis crouched down, and then joined me, prone, just below the crest.	10
30	4	"The whole fleet," said Aktis.	10
30	45	"Aktis," said Clitus, "you have made it clear, I trust, to the villagers that Zeuxis must be sacrificed".	10
30	46	"Many do not believe they are in danger," said Aktis.	10
30	49	"No," said Aktis.	10
31	7	"One fellow removes his helmet, straps it to his side, and puts on some sort of wig," said Aktis.	10
31	9	"An outrageous reddish color," said Aktis.	10
31	11	"It does not even look real," said Aktis.	10
31	13	"It is bright, loud, and grotesque," said Aktis.	10
31	60	"What of Aktis?" I asked.	10
33	20	I trusted that Thurnock and Aktis were not paying close attention.	10
33	70	"Do not trust them," begged Aktis.	10
33	121	"If armed," said Aktis.	10
34	17	"Surely the leader of the corsairs, or one of their high leaders," said Aktis, "is the false Bosk of Port Kar".	10
34	20	"Who then is first amongst the corsairs?" asked Aktis.	10
34	41	"It is clear," said Aktis, "that the claim was not believed.	10
34	83	"On the beach they are striking the tents," said Aktis.	10
34	93	"The fleet departs," said Aktis.	10
35	6	"The paucity of our numbers would have been understood," said Aktis.	10
35	12	"What world?" asked Aktis.	10
35	14	"It exists?" asked Aktis.	10
35	17	"Knowledge is knowledge," said Aktis.	10
35	37	"For a time," said Aktis.	10
35	39	"Thanks to Xanthos, and his fellows," said Aktis, "emissaries are contacting and enleaguing villages, carrying messages of pride and resolution, urging vigilance, preparedness, and a common defense".	10
35	41	"Word has spread," said Aktis.	10
35	103	"Men camp upon them, even live upon them," said Aktis.	10
35	108	"Who knows?" said Aktis.	10
35	114	"Perhaps," said Aktis, "they remember, and are patient".	10
35	166	"Local markets," said Aktis, "but most villages are remote from towns and are substantially independent".	10
35	176	"It moves as a unit," said Aktis.	10
35	184	"They are afraid," said Aktis.	10
35	191	"What are we to do, Captain?" asked Aktis.	10
41	121	One sought to flee, thus reducing defenders and imperiling his fellows the more, a Peasant, one of my own caste, Aktis of Nicosia".	10
44	28	"Yet," I said, "I would have more skilled archers, such as you and your caste brother and friend, Aktis".	10
47	23	"He is a man called Aktis," I said.	10
47	45	"It seems," I said, "that Aktis did not desert".	10
47	52	"This way," said the man who had informed us of the presence of Aktis and Xanthos.	10
48	9	"Some feared you had deserted," I said to Aktis.	10
48	10	"Understanding the obvious peril of Mytilene, its isolation and subjection to siege, I hoped to rally relief," said Aktis.	10
48	29	"An attack on one village is an attack on no single village alone," said Aktis.	10
48	38	"Much had preceded our message," said Aktis.	10
48	187	"We owe much to Xanthos and you," said Thurnock, turning to Aktis.	10
48	189	"It is nothing," said Aktis.	10
48	197	"What of you, Aktis?" asked Clitus.	10
48	199	"Not yet," said Aktis.	10
49	16	"May I reconnoiter?" asked Aktis.	10
49	22	"The beach is now secured?" I asked Aktis.	10
49	23	"And the local area," said Aktis.	10
49	121	"Let us meet our fellows," I said, and, followed by Thurnock, Clitus, Aktis, and some others, I descended the beach.	10
49	140	"Longboats were sent forth to ferry them aboard," said Aktis, "but few such boats, given clouds of arrows, hazarded a second trip".	10
49	205	"Who but the bold and desperate will risk Thassa in the darkness?" "It is light now," said Aktis.	10
52	41	Surrendering his glass of the Builders to Aktis, he was soon at our side.	10
58	219	"Aktis, from Nicosia, our valued oarsman and archer, was instructed to watch for a dancer on the street, one he recalled and had earlier found of interest, one who, as we learned, had been named 'Sylvia'.	10
58	229	"Aktis did well," said Sakim.	10
58	231	I expect she will do nicely, carrying water and hoeing in the fields shackled and naked and spending her nights chained by the neck to a floor ring in Aktis' rebuilt hut".	10
59	437	"His name is Aktis, and he is of the village of Nicosia, on Chios.	10
59	439	"I have spoken to Aktis," said Thurnock.	10
63	80	"I shall miss Aktis," said Thurnock.	10
63	87	Aktis was aboard the Dorna, drawing an oar.	10
63	90	After leaving the Cove of Harpalos, Tab was to lay a course for Chios and disembark Aktis and his slave on the coast near the ashes of Nicosia.	10
63	91	"I trust," said Clitus, "Aktis will be successful in organizing leagues of peasant villages".	10