They were filthy, savage, exhausted, angry, perhaps starving.
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She would probably be slain against the wall by which she stood.
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It would be brutal but quick, on the whole merciful.
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The spear arms drew back, the crossbows leveled.
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Chains were grasped more firmly; the few swords lifted toward me; even the sharpened poles inclined toward my breast.
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"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried a voice, and I saw a small man, thin with a wisp of sandy hair across his forehead, press through the ragged band of rebels that confronted us.
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It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom.
They were filthy, savage, exhausted, angry, perhaps starving.
She would probably be slain against the wall by which she stood.
It would be brutal but quick, on the whole merciful.
The spear arms drew back, the crossbows leveled.
Chains were grasped more firmly; the few swords lifted toward me; even the sharpened poles inclined toward my breast.
"Tarl of Ko-ro-ba!" cried a voice, and I saw a small man, thin with a wisp of sandy hair across his forehead, press through the ragged band of rebels that confronted us.
It was he who had been first on the chain in the mines, he who had of necessity been first to climb the shaft from the slave kennel to freedom.
- (Outlaw of Gor, Chapter )