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brought to you from them; they would now like it back;
Thank you; farewell.
I laughed.
I would say little or nothing.
The object might not even be with the Wagon Peoples any
longer.
And there were four Wagon Peoples, the Paravaci, the
Kataii, the Kassars, and the dreaded Tuchuks.
Who knew with which people the object might have been
placed?
Perhaps it had been hidden away and forgotten?
Perhaps it was now a sacred object, little understood, but
revered and it would be sacrilege to think of it, blasphemy
to speak its Barge, a cruel and slow death even to cast one's
eyes upon it.
And if I should manage to seize it, how could I carry it
away? I had no tarn, one of Gor's fierce saddlebirds; I had not
even the monstrous high tharlarion, used as the mounts of
shock cavalry by the warriors of some cities.
I was afoot, on the treeless southern plains of Gor, on the
Plains of Turia, in the Land of the Wagon Peoples.
The Wagon Peoples, it is said, slay strangers.
The words for stranger and enemy in Gorean are the
same.
I would advance openly.
If I were found on the plains near the camps or the bosk
herds I knew I would be scented out and slain by the do-
mesticated, nocturnal herd sleen, used as shepherds and
sentinels by the Wagon Peoples, released from their cages
with the falling of darkness.
These animals, trained prairie sleen, move rapidly and
silently, attacking upon no other provocation than trespass on
what they have decided is their territory. They respond only
to the voice of their master, and when he is killed pr dies, his
animals are slain and eaten.
There would be no question of night spying on the Wagon
Peoples.
I knew they spoke a dialect of Gorean, and I hoped I
would be able to understand them.
If I could not I must die as befitted a swordsman of
Ko-ro-ba.
I hoped that I would be granted death in battle, if death it



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must be. The Wagon Peoples, of all those on Gor that I
know, are the only ones that have a clan of torturers, trained