Ursus obviously felt the blow, and he skidded to a halt and shook his head to clear it. Meanwhile, Brogolak grinned in triumph. Still feigning some di...scomfort from the blow, Ursus staggered toward Brogolak, and swiped at him with a mighty swing of his right foreleg. Ursus made contact with Brogolak's side and knocked him back about 10 feet. Had he not been wearing the glove, Ursus would have ripped a serious tear in Brogolak's hide. Aha, I signaled for 10 points for Ursus. The score was now. He could have excelled insports, especially rugby, but he just wasn't interested. He was a nerd,just like me.Well, not just like me. I didn't have his build or anything. I was tallfor my age but I was more like a weed. There was no muscle mass on me atall. We shared the same interests; online RPG games, comics, movies, comicbased movies and table top war games.We entered registration and found Monique sat at our usual table."Hey guys," she chirped up when she saw us."Hey Neek," Dave and I said. Bobby was surprised by her statement. ‘Are…are you sure, Mrs. Fargo?’ he asked. Keeping her back to him, Amber nodded. ‘Yes,’ she said. ‘I…I really do think it’s for the best if we stop, don’t you?’ Bobby got up, walked across the room, put his hand on Amber’s shoulder and turned her so she was facing him. ‘No, I don’t think it’s for the best,’ he said, ‘and I don’t think you really do, either. Do you really believe that?’ Amber gazed at Bobby and felt her heart racing. Their faces were inches. My quality of life could go nowhere but down since my forced retirement. I decided that I'd had long enough experiece being scraping-by-poor and the alternative seemed worth living with the disadvantages. Because of the way the funds were set aside I would only pay approximately 15% in federal taxes. I resoved to move to a tax free state before claiming it.I wanted to live among the mountains. I'd visited the Canadian Rockies as a youth and my impression of their impersonal dignity had never.