Chapter 643
Inside, Katelina changed into her pajamas. She was on her way back from the bathroom when she ran into Loren and Zander. The teen was mid-sentence. "amazing! The way you took them out, like some kind of kung-fu. Where did you learn to fight like that?"
Zander looked at the boy curiously. "Is training not a part of your discipline?"
"Um-not really," Loren said. "I mean Micah showed me some things, and Jorick has before, but nothing like that."
"Our training is part of worshipping the Goddess. It teaches control, patience, and many other things. The scriptures bid us to be 'ever ready to treat with conflict' yet 'use that knowledge only when no other recourse is offered.'"
Katelina moved on, imagining Zander and the others as Shaolin monks in some far Asian temple.