Auf vielerlei verschlungenen heimlichen Pfaden gelangte Robin nach Nottingham zurück, und dort in das Haus des ersten Kaufmannes am Platze. Der hatte...sich bislang nicht offen gegen den Sheriff gestellt. Im Geheimen aber half er schon lange jenen, die vom Sheriff so arg ausgenommen und ungerecht behandelt wurden. Robin erfuhr von ihm, dass im Wald eine ganze Reihe Menschen zusammen leben würden, die durch die Obrigkeit ihr Hab und gut verloren hätten. Wenn diese nun einen umsichtigen und. He released me and stumbled. I made a run for it. My heart was pounding. I knew it was Alex. I knew his touch anywhere.I made it halfway across the room before I felt myself get pulled back by the shirt. I was now on the ground, looking up at this masked man. He had me pinned to the ground. I grabbed the mask and yanked it off. Alex just looked at me, not smiling. He was good at this.I continued to struggle as much as I could. “Get off!” I yelled, without really yelling. I didn’t want to worry. " "Very good," he told me. "Now you can learn about them for real." He manipulated the shaft on one of them, and, just as he had described in his story, what appeared to be solid metal was really a series of disks held together magnetically. He removed several of the disks, then held the clamp out sideways and brought it to my right nipple. I saw the set-screw that could keep the clamp from fully closing, but it appeared to be all the way out, and I shivered at the thought of how that clamp was. “Not exactly. Not then anyway. When they won the election though, some of them decided to actually reform or re-create the Earth First Party by formally merging a number of the individual parties and independents. It was a bit of a mutt right from the start.”“Mutt?”Robbie grinned. “Heinz Varieties?”At Peter’s blank look and shake of the head, Robbie sighed. “Where did you grow up?” he asked with a soft laugh. “It means a mongrel. A hybrid. A mixture. In this case you ended up with parties like.