“If you need me to teach your entire coterie how to pulverize one tempermental milksop,” says Proserpina dryly, “she must have hit you harder than I thought.”<\/p>\n
“That’s not what we want!” snaps Iala. “It’s the–the way they look at you, everyone. The fear. The respect.<\/i>”<\/p>\n
“I’m sure you’re fantasizing, and in any case, I can’t teach it.”<\/p>\n
“Then show me how to earn it!”<\/p>\n
“How? Hurting Ernestine?”<\/p>\n
“If necessary!”<\/p>\n
“No.”<\/p>\n
“Then why do you love fighting so much?” Iala sniffs.<\/p>\n
“Because boxing isn’t a weapon,” Proserpina says, smiling, as the idea begins to light her up. “It’s a sport.”<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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