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Thank you for your patience  ~Aery

"What are the codes?" she asked

"They are nothing, and everything," I said.
"They are a bit of noise, and the steel of the heart.
They are meaningless, and all significant.
They are the difference. Without the codes men would be Kurii.

"You need not keep the codes." She said.

"I once betrayed my codes," I said. "It is not my intention to do so again." I looked at her.
 "One does not know, truly, what it is to stand, until one has, one has fallen, then one knows, what it is to stand."

"None would know if you betrayed the codes," She said.

"I would know," I said. "and I am of the Warriors."

"What is it to be a Warrior," She said.

"It is to keep the codes," I said. You may think that to be a Warrior is to be large, or strong,
 and to be skilled with Weapons, to have a blade at your hip, to know the grasp of the spear, to wear the scarlet,
 to know the fitting of the iron helm upon one`s countenance, but these things are not truly needful;
 they are not, truly, what makes one man a warrior and another not. Many men are strong, and large,
 and skilled with weapons. Any man might, if he dared, don the scarlet and gird himself with weapons.
 Any man might place upon his brow the helm of iron. But it is not the scarlet, not the steel,
 not the helm of iron which makes the Warrior."

She looked up at me.

"It is the codes," I said

(Beast of Gor Pg. 340)

Last Edited:  08/21/2008