Mariners of Gor

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And he spoke.

“I sailed on the great ship,” he said. “Yea, the ship of Tersites.”

“It was lost at sea,” said a man.

“It sailed over the edge of the world,” said another.

“Listen,” he said. “And I will tell you a story.”

“For paga,” laughed a Merchant.

“We have heard such stories,” said a fellow.

“You are a liar,” scoffed the taverner.

“A thousand ships come and go, in the great harbor of Brundisium,” said a fellow. “There are a thousand stories.”

“But not of the ship of Tersites,” he said.

“No,” said a fellow, “not of the ship of Tersites.”

“There is no such ship,” said a man. “Tersites was mad, fled from Port Kar.”

“I hear ‘banished’,” said another.

“The ship was never built,” said a man.

“It was built,” averred the fellow.

“No,” said a man.

“In the northern forests,” he said.

“Absurd,” laughed a man.

“And debouched onto Thassa from the Alexandra,” he said.

“Have you seen it?” asked a man.

“I berthed upon her,” he said.