He noticed me just in time, as I brought my sword down toward him. Bringing his staff overhead, he blocked the strike. The blade rang as if it had hit...a steel rod. I fought the shock running through my arms and brought my sword back to strike again. He discharged the staff toward Cheryl and Emelia, just missing them, and immediately swung the weapon at me.I'd glanced toward the two women when the fire burst from his staff, and I just barely got my weapon in line. Despite defeating most of the. "She says the woman left just after the disturbance began, riding a bike, so it's been a while since it started. Apparently there were a group of men, all young, destroying property, firing guns in the air, starting fires and threatening people." I thought the shopping center was closed?" It mostly is, but there were a couple shops trying to sell off some of their remaining stock for whatever people could offer them. Apparently the men attacking the place are terrorizing the people there and. He is paying his own doctor bills. He quit his regular job and I hiredhim as my full time live in maid. His entire salary is going to pay forhis improvements."Sue got Candy aside, "You're the one that insisted I throw Bob out of thehouse, yet you're letting Phil live at home rent free." I know Sue; but Bob is the one that led Phil into trouble. Phil is afollower; he couldn't survive out on his own for a whole year."The three women giggled like school girls as they searched for the. Now this meant a walk of about 50 yards to the water through a crowd of about 75 people in our thongs, me with no top on. I had been watching for cops and noticed that one had driven by earlier. So I knew he would not be back for a bit. I also had been checking out the people around us to see who might be offended by us and report us to the police. The area of the beach we were at was full of teenagers, college k**s and twenty and thirty somethings. I did not see any k**s running around so I.