The fact that they were not as strong as men was less important with the atlatl as a weapon, and they had Alice to use for an example. I insisted that...if "she" could use the atlatl effectively, so could they. Again, I emphasized that they might be needed to help defend our cave from intruders, animal or human.Alice and Strong Arm made two more hunting expeditions to get as much elk as they could bring home. We needed to stock up on jerky, because I wanted to send Alice on some errands, and we. Jason sat and watched appreciably as yet another college aged admirer stood at their table asking her for a dance. Her long blond hair whipping around into her face as she turned suddenly startled to look at the young man asking for her company. She was completely dazed and confused looking up at him with a silly smile plastered on her face. Jason told her latest admirer she would have to pass, as he went back to telling her all the things he was going to do with her once he got her back to. I lashed out and slugged the foul smelling man and he crashed into a table and fell.I started across the room as I heard another crash from a back room and knew the other two Night Watch had entered. I lashed out and to the left as I went past an elf and used the sword breaker to push a long knife away. I stabbed a knife welding human in the chest as the elf jerked and screamed.I yanked the sword breaker out as I whirled my left hand to wind the spell breaker chain around my wrist. I reached. They armed themselves with their carbines and all of their extra ammunition; this looked like a long fight ahead. They picketed their horses near the road where the posse couldn't help seeing them; that way they wouldn't blunder into killing range without some warning.The Rangers crouched low so that they were concealed by the brush and moved up to the tree line on their side of the river. At this point in the battle, they were more interested in seeing how the bandits had distributed.