Most anyone would be distressed by the sight of so much blood.Volunteer members of St. John’s Ambulance who would usually attend to an injured spect...tor aided those who felt ill.Brad tried to wipe the blood, now becoming sticky, from his hands with the once white towel and returned to the ice. He picked up his gloves and stick, fans looked on in horror at the streaks of blood that had stained his white sweater, sleeves, face shield, hands, and face. The fierce-looking Falcon emblem on his. You…’ I paused and spoke emphatically, ‘Etienne… don’t have a damn clue as to who I am today and to think that I am no more experienced, wiser, learned and different is insulting.’ Etienne wanted to make certain that I was done and nodded to indicate that he heard every word I said, and had in fact expected each word from me as it flowed like the chorus of an operetta. ‘I expected such words,’ he said, yanking my proverbial soapbox out from underneath me. ‘And if that was all there was to my. Years of preparation, months of hardcore training, and two days of intense preliminary and then final competition had boiled down to a single, spectacular, almost super-human effort. And then on top of all that, I'd engaged in a torrid threesome with Euro hotties that really wiped me out.Protein. I need protein.Swinging my legs off the bed, I worked the cricks out of my neck before spotting the note on my nightstand. Printed neatly on official Olympic stationary, Anneke had written in. The Emir intended to use it as a standard means of execution, instead of strangling. Once he was sure it would work it would be used in front of some of the more rebellious women and then they would fall in line.At about five feet from the ground in the centre of one wall he had a ring bolt firmly inserted in the wall. It was tested as being able to bear a one ton weight or pull without becoming dislodged. Exactly opposite a pulley was fixed to the wall and tested to two tons pull. Below the.