Eel - Death

She shall tread the narrow board of the high platform of execution, thence to plunge into the deep pool of death eels far below."

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 244

"You have heard of the projected fate of Sumomo," I said.

"It is merciful under the circumstances," he said. "The plunge to the pool of death eels."

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 251

"Perhaps others, too, might do so," I said. "When is she to make the acquaintance of the eels?"

"There are hundreds, half starved," said Haruki. "One can almost walk upon them."

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 255

From where I was, in the stands, I could see both the platform of execution, far above and to my left, and the wide surface, some ten paces in width, of the deep stone-encased pool of death eels.

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 257

All attention seemed focused on the platform, even that of the attendant who had served to agitate the restless denizens of the pool. Indeed, the waters of the pool still stirred, and more than once I saw the glistening back of an eel break the surface, and then snap away with a spattering of water.

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Pages 269 - 270

I suspected the eels well anticipated, by now, perhaps from the past, perhaps from a variety of cues, sounds, movements, and reflections, if not from the two token feedings earlier administered, designed to do little more than sharpen the ravenous blades of hunger, that food was in the offing. I suspected they had been starved for days, to ready them for this moment. Similarly, it is not unusual for trainers and keepers in Ar and Turia to withhold food from arena animals, that the torments of hunger might be sorely exacerbated, so cruelly heightened that the released animal will forgo the caution and probity of its ways in the wild to indiscriminately rush upon and attack, and attempt to feed upon, whatever falls within its desperate ken.

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Pages 271 - 272

"Yes," I said. "He is Tajima an officer in the cavalry. With daring, and sustaining great risk, he fled with Sumomo, the shogun's daughter, rescuing her but a moment before she would have plunged into the pool of death eels."

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 292

"Sumomo," I said, "was to be fed to death eels."

Rebels of Gor     Book 33     Page 387