WarrantThese are relevant references from the Books where a Warrant is mentioned. I make no pronouncements on these matters, but report them as I find them. Arrive at your own conclusions. I wish you well, Fogaban "What of those who robbed me!" cried the fellow with the torn clothing and the blood behind his ear. "You are not the first," said the praetor, looking down at him from the high desk. "They stand under a general warrant." "Turgus, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant outstanding upon you, you are sentenced to banishment. If you are found within the limits of the city after sunset this day you will be impaled." "The Lady Sasi, of Port Kar," said the praetor, "in virtue of what we have here today established, and in virtue of the general warrant outstanding upon her, must come under sentence." "Please, my officer," she begged. "I am now going to sentence you," he said. "Please," she cried. "Sentence me only to a penal brothel!" "The penal brothel is too good for you," said the praetor. "Show me mercy," she begged. "You will be shown no mercy," he said. She looked up at him, with horror. "You are sentenced to slavery," he said. "No, no!" she screamed. "Why have you changed your name?" I asked. "There are various warrants out for me," he said. "By changing my name that gives the local guardsmen on Show Street an excuse for taking my bribes with a good conscience." "Be careful," I said to him. "If I were not careful," he said, "there would be a great deal more than eleven warrants out on me, and I would have a great deal more creditors than the twenty-two who know where to find me." "Does the proscription list not mean death?" she asked. "Strictly," I said, "it means apprehension, but it is true, that it is commonly a warrant for death, certainly for males, and often for women, free women." "I wonder," said Addison Steele, "what became of the rogue, Decius of Venna." "Escaping in the confusion at the Skerry of Lars," I said, "I suspect he returned to Venna." "Perhaps not," said Addison Steele. "It is rumored a warrant for his arrest awaits him there." "I have a warrant for the arrest of Aktis of Nicosia," said the leader of the uniformed men, slapping his hand on his wallet. |
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