They tried to pull him off, but Odo recklessly threw his body from side to side and kept moving, each time managing to slip from their grasp. At one point he slammed into the table almost knocking it over. The thick candle slid down the table to land on the dry rushes that carpeted the floor.

Odo was young, in superb physical shape and remarkably strong, but it wasn't enough. He couldn't fight four men and the short brawl ended when he was brutally struck across the ...