Ghosts of the Desert: At one time, Rage in the Cage founder Roland Sarria was the ringleader to the southwest’s wildest party. But nearly two decades later, the game has changed.

Roland Sarria is telling me we’ve met before. He’s lying. This is the first time. He says he was a Templar knight in a past life, and that I was Saladin, the 12th century sultan who reigned over Egypt and Syria for almost 20 years. He says he travel…

Roland Sarria is telling me we’ve met before. He’s lying. This is the first time. He says he was a Templar knight in a past life, and that I was Saladin, the 12th century sultan who reigned over Egypt and Syria for almost 20 years. He says he traveled as a peace envoy on the order of the Catholic Church, hoping to barter a treaty between our two armies. We broke bread over a warm hearth and decided, he and I, that we weren’t too different from one another after all. War was avoided that…

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