The darkness returned, and in the next flash of lightning I examined the blood again, but it was only blood, the blood of a sleen I had killed on the road to Ko-ro-ba.
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I could not even see myself reflected in the surface.
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I drank the blood, completing the ritual.
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I stood up, and wiped the spear as well as I could on the fur of the sleen.
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Its heart had given me strength.
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"Thank you, Dark Brother of the Night," I said to the animal.
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I saw that water had gathered in the concave side of the shield.
The darkness returned, and in the next flash of lightning I examined the blood again, but it was only blood, the blood of a sleen I had killed on the road to Ko-ro-ba.
I could not even see myself reflected in the surface.
I drank the blood, completing the ritual.
I stood up, and wiped the spear as well as I could on the fur of the sleen.
Its heart had given me strength.
"Thank you, Dark Brother of the Night," I said to the animal.
I saw that water had gathered in the concave side of the shield.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )