An older thin man was cried as he was forced into a deep squat with his hands shackled behind his back while two soldiers held him and laid onto his t...ighs and calves with short wooden clubs. Lash marks covered his torso and cords encircled his genitals. The bindings were tied tight forcing his organ into a now dark purple wad of flesh that caught blows regularly. Several men were hung from the ceiling chained by their ankles unconscious with welts covering their torsos. Three women sat bound. "No limits Texas hold’em, well there are obviously limits but you know what I mean." We all know what you mean," retorted Sophie with a sadistic wink. "Ok lets just start before this gets out of hand already,” Mike said. The game started off slow, there were some winners and losers. An hour and a half into the game Sophie and Ethan were up by the most and Mike was doing ok, Kate, Aaron and Jane were doing terribly and Jane was on the verge of being out of the next round if her luck did not. He needs fluids before his kidneys shut down. Begin a saline IV now."Leon came back and said, "Fifty units of A-positive whole blood will be here in three hours. Dr. Johnson is supervising gathering blood at Summerdale and Barin. They are sending Rob's banked blood and what's available. They have mass blood collection equipment for disasters, and they have on record blood types for all personnel at Summerdale and Barin. All have been screened. We can further type the blood when it gets here. A. The long ragged lines of humanity passed each and every day unless the weather was far too bad to make it all the way to the top. A lot of the older people and the ones who were not in the best of health or condition tended to drop their messages off at the monastery with a donation to relay it to the Gods.That was because the trail became much more difficult after passing the home of the brown-robed mysterious monks who remained silent most of the time unless they were instructed to speak and.