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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: imposed upon you.
"You may go free within two minutes, upon one condition.
Tardos Mors will never return to Helium. Neither will
Mors Kajak, nor Dejah Thoris. Helium must select a new
Jeddak within the year. Zat Arras would be Jeddak of Helium.
Say that you will espouse my cause. This is the price of
your freedom. I am done."
I knew it was within the scope of Zat Arras' cruel heart
to destroy me, and if I were dead I could see little reason
to doubt that he might easily become Jeddak of Helium. Free,
I could prosecute the search for Dejah Thoris. Were I dead,
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