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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Gods of Mars by Edgar Rice Burroughs: of the Holy Therns. There tell your story to Matai Shang,
my father. He will keep you, and together you may find a way
to rescue me. Fly while there is yet a bare chance for flight."
But that was not my mission, nor could I see much to
be preferred in the cruel hospitality of the Holy Therns
to that of the First Born.
"Down with Issus!" I shouted, and together the boy and
I took up the fight once more. Two blacks went down
with our swords in their vitals, and we stood face to face
with Issus. As my sword went up to end her horrid career
her paralysis left her, and with an ear-piercing shriek she
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