Why must men slay one another and make horrible war?
One man alone had slain the king, for reasons as yet undetermined.
Now he learned they had no more dignity in death than men slain the same way.
Nine dead men, one of them slain manifestly by the Queen's own hand!
Another showed how four men could attack and slay a stolof.
"All the men of this town I cannot slay."
That old man had almost slain him across half the breadth of the Empire.
The man who should have been King, betrayed and slain by his own jealous brother.
Even should each man slay ten of the enemy, it seemed twenty more would step into the gap.
"Only a strong man could have slain it thus," said Kangrey.
