That simply shows you’re a brute. Come on, then, or are you afraid to meet me?”He slipped on a helmet and started towards me, his axe raised for c...ombat., a shield at the ready. I pulled my sword but kept my shield down. As he got closer, he said, “It’s too bad, you know. I bet I could have made you squeal in bed.”“That’s okay. There’s enough squealing from my three wives already.”“Soon to be widows!” He started to charge me, his axe held up, then stopped just outside sword range. I was ready as. I don't know if its still known as such after so much time. That palace was designed to be beautiful, but also to be the strongest building known to Man. At the heart of it is the Rod bound into the stone of the Palace in such a way as to give it unnatural strength." The long-dead Carus regarded McAllister, and then continued. "You should know when I gave it to them, I ordered they do their best to insure that if it were ever pulled from its column, that millions of tons of stone would fall on. I felt a little bit of guilt and nervousness but when I got home I told her I won and gave her a good fucking. Mary Was surprised to see how hard and excited I was, she told me “gezz, you gotta win more often”. A few weeks pass and eventually the guys and I get together again, play cards and get hammered. I wanted the same excitement I had the other night, just the thought of it was arousing all of my sense, so intensely that I was blinded by them. This time we ran out of booze, we were all. “There’s more, too. You know Melanie Spencer, right?”“Birgit’s other sister,” she giggled.“Yeah, you could say that. Did Birgit tell you about Melanie and me?”“Yes. I thought Birgit was crazy at first, but she seems to have known what she was doing.”“What you don’t know about Melanie is that she tried to kill herself.”“What?!” Karin gasped. “We heard she was in an accident!”“She was. It was a suicide attempt. Melanie and I had wrecked our relationship twice, and the suicide attempt was after.