John Norman Gor 18 Blood Brothers of Gor

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.An advantage of this cofflePage 158ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.htmlarrangement is that women may be easily taken from it, and added to it.A similar arrangement, of course, may be achieved with chains, each length ofchain terminating at one end with a pair of slave bracelets and, at the otherend, with a closable, lockable neck ring.The last woman on the coffle, ofcourse, has the neck ring attached to her own bracelets and chain locked abouther own neck.An advantage of the chains over the thongs, of course, is thatthe chain cannot be chewed through.Some of the other girls under the ropesand cloths were tied in more conventional fashions.Some were not even tied atall.An example was Oiputake, or Kiss, whom I well knew.It was she whom I hadtaken from a herd earlier, and imporved.Too, it was she who had alerted us tothe fact, thinking little of it at the time, that the Yellow-Knife chieftains in camp were not civil cheiftains by war chiefs."Master!" she had cried to me, extending her hand to me."Be silent, Slave," I had told her."Yes, Master," she had said.I had then ridden on.I did not wish to conversewith her at the time.She could not follow me.She stood within a small dirtcircle, probably drawn with the heel of a moccasin about her.It was aconfinement circle.She could not leave it without permission of a freeperson.I did stop my kaiila briefly beside a blond girl, lying on her bellyin the dirt.She trembled, knowing I had stopped near her."Who are you?" I asked."I am a nameless slave of Cotanka, of the Wismahi," she said.She was the slave who, earlier, had been used by Yellow Knives as, in effect,a lure girl, one used to distract or, say, entrap a warrior.Cotanka had beenfortunate.He had not been killed.He now owned her.I did not think her lotwould be an easy one.She wore the "bonds of a master's will." Grunt had puther in them.She lay on her stomach.Her wrists were crossed behindher.Her ankles, too, were crossed.She was "bound." She could not rise to herfeet.Yet there was not a rope or a strap on her body.She was "bound by themaster's will." She could not move from this position unless, at the word of afree person, she was freed from it.To break the position otherwise is to be instantly slain.page 248~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~No longer now were some of the Yellow Knives riding about, back and forthbefore their lines, moving their lances about, preparing their parties forcombat, exorting them, doubtless, to boldness and bravery.The kaiila of the enemy were now aligned towards us."Make ready your lances, make ready your knives." chanted Mahpiyasapa, ridingbefore our lines."May your eyes be keen.May your movements be swift andsure.May your medicine be strong!""They will be coming soon," said Cuwignaka."Yes," I said."What are they waiting for?" asked a man."The Kinyanpi," said another.I glanced over to Hci.I saw his shield move, as though by itself.Then hesteadied it.I felt the hair rise on the back of my neck.I felt goose flesh.This movement of the shield had not been unnoticed by Mahpiyasapa.He rode toHci."What is wrong with your shield?" he asked."Nothing," said Hci."Fall back," said Mahpiyasapa."Do not fight." Then he rode from him.Hci, however, did not leave his place in our lines."Perhaps the Kinyanpi will not come," said a man."The Kinyanpi!" cried voices to our rear, the shout being relayed from man toman.I looked back."It is the Kinyanpi," said Cuwignaka, looking back, too.Page 159ABC Amber Palm Converter, http://www.processtext.com/abcpalm.html"Yes," I said.They are coming in two flights, two darknesses, one from theeast, one from the southeast.We gave our attention to Mahpiyasapa, awaiting his signal.Mahpiyasapa, before our lines, lifted and lowered his lance.We had little doubt as to what the tactics of the Kinyanpi would be this time.They would not repeat their earlier mistake of a direct, low-level attackagainst our defenses.They would either keep their height and rain arrows downupon us or act in support of the Yellow Knives.As we could protect ourselvesresonalby well with shields from simple, distance archery it seemed obvous,then, that our two enemies would act in conjunction.If we warded blows ofYellow Knives we could not, at the same time, protect ourselves from aerialfire.Similarly, if we attempted to protect ourselves from aerial page 249~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~fire, by lifting our shields, we would be exposing ourselves to the YellowKnives' plane of attack [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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