"Heh. Maybe. From the sound of things, you kinda need friends to watch your back if you so much as step out of the city. I used to be pretty competent, but," Connie sighs, flexing her arm. "It's like somebody decided to roll back all those dozens of hours of training in a few seconds. Which is, um, pretty irritating. Hopefully that'll change when we get our asterisk thingies."
Re: b.