Titus Cornelius Albinus

"Flee!" she said.
"I am of the Warriors," I said.
"But you may die," she said.
"That is acknowledged in the codes," I said.
"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."
. . .
"None would know if you betrayed the codes," she said.
"I would know," I said, "and I am of the Warriors."

Beasts of Gor