10 BAILily got up as soon as she awoke, unlike normally, because she wanted to practice some more. She took her pyjamas off, went into the living room, tied her quiver on and put four skewers into the cork that was sewn into the bottom of it. She half danced around the room and half-performed made-up ninja manoeuvres based on the T’ai Chi movements that she had learned at school and the karate katas she was learning then to deliver the skewers. She felt very professional in what she was doing.
She knew that no-one but an expert would have a chance against her in a surprise attack.
And Bai was no expert – not by a long chalk – he was as good as dead. The only concern was whether she could evade capture, but she thought that there was a more than seventy percent chance that she could get a
