They didn't try a head tohead battle. The Me 109 had 30 mm cannon in it's nose. That cannon couldknock out a tank or shoot down a bomber. A fighter wo...ld be like candy toit.Joey went down first. Ellen caught him from the underside and sawed hisrudder and stabilizer off his plane. Duncan shot out Joey's engine. ThenDuncan went after Frank as Sarah went after Duncan. Ellen chased Sarah.Ellen knocked Sarah out of the game just as Duncan blasted Frank. Theonly difference that Ellen and Duncan got. The assailant hadn’t chased them out of the room, but the house was eerily quiet. “W-we h-have to move forward, A-ava. We don’t have another choice. H-hold onto me, o-okay?” Ellen said, barely above a whisper. Shakily, she got to her feet and helped pull her friend to her own. Now with hands clasped tightly, they skirted the parlor room and deeper into the house. The next room was on their left and they both peered in.The room was eerily normal, something neither of them expected as they looked. "He seems a solid dependable man, and those with him looked to him for leadership." I told Wick.When we had wrapped up the midday meal, Wick left us in the care of one of his grandchildren, Cord Ambrul. Cord was seventeen, and had just finished his first year at the Beletaran Maritime Academy. Two more years there and he would become a certified pilot/navigator in the Maritime Guild."With that certification, and Grandfather Wick's continued belief in my good sense, I will become captain of one. The bed itself had discrete lighting so that when its curtains were shut the occupants could still have bright light if they wished to read, or dim light for other activities, or none at all if they so desired. The roof of the bed was, of course, a mirror.As the couple entered, the Emir waved away the attendant eunuchs and bath girls as he thought, correctly, that it might disturb, or even frighten Paulette to have attendants in the room as she made love to him for the first time."Who were all.