"Well then you're luckier than most," Brandon wheezed without thinking. "Just let me go, jerk, the joke's over." His pudgy hands were wrapped tightly around the gauntlet, trying to pry it away from him. "J-jeez." He still had no perception of what had occurred, or the danger he had fallen into.
"If you're from Henburg's chess-team, I'll seriously get you guys thrown out of the tournament." The Henburg geeks had a mean-streak a parsec long. They had pranked Brandon's chess-team before.
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For those of you who hide in the shadows of our forefathers:
"We are hard pressed on every side but not crushed;
Perplexed but not in despair;
Persecuted but not abandoned;
Struck down but not destroyed!"
-War of Ages
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