His mouth was open, and he was grinning.

And yet, though he had just begun to exert his strength, in that moment he wrenched my shoulder so that I suffered from it for the remainder of my life.
And in that moment something happened.

There was no warning.

A great body smashed down upon the four of us locked together.

We were driven violently apart and rolled over and over, and in the suddenness of surprise we released our holds on one another.