The bulldozer moves in and knocks down the dilapidated shack in its path.The cat""s tire tracks in he dust cut across the shadows cast by the family.Although his family has already moved west, Muley has stubbornly vowed to stay (as "an old graveyard ghost") and virtuously defend his lost land even though he is hopelessly beaten:What was the use? He was right, and there wasn""t a thing in the world I could do about it.The country was torn by civil war with many kingdoms struggling for land and power.But one king had a ruthless ambition to make himself emperor by the sword.The other rulers hired assassins to kill the king before he could conquer them all.Kingdom by kingdom, his army swept away everything in its path and anyone who resisted met a terrible fate.But we will carry a piece of each other into everything that we do next, to remind us of who we are, and of who we""re meant to be.He pockets the wallet and graciously re-seats her at the table.Her theft of his wallet initiates their affair together.Their polite and quick-witted, but seductive game/duel of dinner-table pickpocketing and mutual theft stretches on further, as they declare their love for each other while returning precious purloined objects.] The meeting was interrupted by laughter from the Joker in the back of the room, who intimidated the group with a "magic pencil trick" that dispatched with Gambol""s henchman.