Thus, the leg was broken in two places, one above and one below the knee. Rolf's head hit the ground so hard that he was knocked unconscious. The cat ...urned as fast as it could to try to bite Rolf in the neck between his helm and his gorget (a neck shield). I managed to get there in time to lop off the beast's head with my claymore before it could reach Rolf for what surely would have been a killing bite.We had killed the two magical beasts, but Rolf's broken leg needed immediate attention. In. Lefsky? Shit, he's going to get me in trouble. Charlie felt like running away, but for some reason he didn't want to be left behind so he jogged until he caught up to Satan. He walked next to him fretting about how embarrassed he was going to be when they caught up to Mrs. Lefsky.Mrs. Lefsky sensed someone approaching and spun around, cradling a brown paper bag in her arms. A sense of relief washed over her face which broke into a warm smile as she said, "Hello, Charlie."Tongue-tied, the boy. Dola got further behind and I waited in front of a few of the guards to inspect their uniform. From the way their minds worked, I could feel that they were much more worried now than they were as children seeing their monarch for the first time. I let my mind leak a bit about how good the honour guard looked and moved on, but at a slower pace.Inside the large building we walked down the floor that reminded me of the base on Earth but here the colours were still vivid. On a far wall was the. Billy won often enough to make the project worthwhile, but not so much that the other players lost interest. For some reason which Billy never understood, there seemed to be a waiting line of players for his game.The several days it took to get to Cairo made it obvious that Billy and Bob had a moneymaker in their poker game. They booked passage all the way to St. Louis, and they kept their game going the whole time. They were so successful and their game was so popular that the first mate asked.