Lory and Lyra's fights against the men left them bloody and bruised. They only now realized why they hadn't been punished the other day. They were clearly being kept to be punished today instead.
They were also surprised at how tough the two cubs were. They had all seriously tried to fight them and yet they had lost so easily.
In the end, it only stopped when they could no longer move.
Ning walked upto them and crouched in front of them. "Do you know how long it has been since you all started fighting?" he asked.
The men shook their heads. They were in so much pain that they would rather not talk at all right now. They didn't care how long it had been either. Why would that have mattered at all?
"15 minutes," Ning said.
"What?" one of the men asked, even as his body hurt from the vibrations from his own voice. "We've fought for longer than that surely."
