We’ve got to rest these mules and horses before we can go on much further anyway.”“I reckon you’re right, I was just worried about all those w...ld dogs.”“So you’re thinking they may be wild dogs too?”“It’s the only thing they can be, Eli. Their bodies are too big for coyotes and their legs aren’t long enough for a wolf.”“I was thinking that very thing, Pike, when I first called them dogs. We should be alright here. We’ll have our mules and horses to alarm us if they try to sneak back in during. He swung the top half of the door open all the way, and we stood looking at the entire cotton-pen stacked full of leather suitcases.“Take a guess?”“I count four - from the bottom of this opening to the top - as far as I can see up there - I would say there are four more in this stack, from here to the floor. I see at least four stacks and there has to be two more stacks on either side of the doorway.“Okay, that’s eight stacks, that are eight high. That’s sixty-four suitcases in each row across. “Despite your insults, the Duke is generous. He commands that you surrender yourselves and face his justice. If you do, you may yet live. If you do not, you will certainly die.”I had already goaded Radu into a near-frenzy. What I said next was just for my own amusement.I addressed the woman and the two bodyguards. “If you fight us here, you will die. However, if you cut off your Arch-Commander’s balls and feed them to him…” I paused for dramatic effect. “I will give you his property, his. I soon found students willing to follow my path. We have grown." You have both male and female students, I understand?" Sarah asked. "How do you... do they have... are there any restrictions on sex?"Tao Ling laughed. "We accept nobody under the age of eighteen to our school. They are all adults, and may do as they please." But what about rape?"Tao Ling's smile disappeared. His eyes hardened. "Students who come here have, at the very least, rudimentary training in some form of martial arts..