Chapter FourteenThough trained in martial arts from an early age, Hephaestans were not raised to be fighting machines. Preeminent in the Hephaestan way of life were the application of logic and a philosophy of infinite tolerance for the differences among living things. Neither logic nor infinite tolerance encouraged the use of violence as other than a last resort.
The Vox street fighters who crossed paths with J'Tull would have been surprised to learn this.
She cut through them like a force of nature, mowing down one pack after another in a whirlwind of motion. They fell upon her in a frenzy, hellbent on mayhem, gouging and slashing and swinging weapons…only to fall away in a heartbeat like stalks of wheat before a scythe.
Unfortunately, for every gang that fell, another appeared out
