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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Princess of Parms by Edgar Rice Burroughs: upon the moss, a huge mass of torn and bloody flesh.
Bar Comas was stone dead, and only the most herculean efforts on
the part of Dak Kova's females saved him from the fate he deserved.
Three days later he walked without assistance to the body of Bar
Comas which, by custom, had not been moved from where it fell,
and placing his foot upon the neck of his erstwhile ruler he
assumed the title of Jeddak of Warhoon.
The dead jeddak's hands and head were removed to be added
to the ornaments of his conqueror, and then his women
cremated what remained, amid wild and terrible laughter.
The injuries to Dak Kova had delayed the march so
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