Like so many others, they headed straight for the boxing tent, although for different reasons than most. They had been watching the bare-knuckle fighting for just over an hour before they arrived at an obvious conclusion. Hammerhead was the man in whom their money should be invested. He had fought four times and had won each bout comfortably, without showing any signs of fatigue. They had not come here to gamble on him, however. Or not in the sense of wagering money on whether or not he would win a fight, anyhow. They were thinking of gambling their lives on him. Dante, after their experiences with the Mystic Lady and the Professor, had decided that they needed a bodyguard. If they were going to sell the Eye of the Moon to someone for a large sum of money, they were going to need some backup. Picking out the toughest guy at an open-ring bare-knuckle boxing challenge seemed like the best way to go. Kacy was already convinced that Hammerhead was the man for the job, but Dante had a few nagging doubts.
