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Petra sits with her back against the building, Kit nowhere to be seen. Her eyes are closed and she's dressed warmly this time.

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Bonzo thinks about that.

"And if you'd gotten me on the ground, what would you have done?"

Petra looks Bonzo strait in the eye.

"The same as I did when you were trapped against the wall. You would have 'died.'"

No doubt now. Petra is not the same girl who went though battle school, nor even the one who escaped Achilles lair.

Bonzo sighs.

"Well, you've certainly developed a willingness to kill...I at least want to give my opponent the chance to surrender if circumstances allow for it."

Petra winces slightly and says nothing, her mind turning around his words.]

Willingness to kill... yes. Yes. That would be a way to put it wouldn't it? I left mercy far behind, in a word at the edge of war and the peacemakers gone... there is little need for mercy, and much demand for harshness.

Bonzo sighs.

"I've overreacted to what nearly happened to me, haven't I?"

"Perhaps. Why do you ask?"

Bonzo shakes his head.

"You sound like I once did. And I've become...less brutal, too."

"Take a trip though the Russian winter." the girls suggests mildly, an edge to her voice.

She forces it away and attempts to smile. "You've done well."

Bonzo arches an eyebrow.

"How so?"

Petra has no idea what Bonzo is responding to so...

"You're much more mellow now then you ever were. I remember how you always delt kindly with Kit, even when he was being annoying. The old Bonzo would never have stood for that nonsense."

Bonzo smiles.

"When you see that a road leads to a dead end...it's usually good to change roads."

Pause.

"How is Kit doing, anyway?"

"Wonderfuly. He loves the Hegemony's offices. The people there don't love him, as his favorate activity is sitting on cabnits waiting for people to pass so he can pounce...."

A faint smile crosses Petra's face.

"Needless to say, they aren't fond of that, but they humor him because it humors me."

Sitting on cabinets?

"Does that mean he votes? And is he planning to bring down the government if he can?"

"As a bolt of lightning from the sky."

Petra grins.

"They swear he is, but he's just having fun. The clerks who drop their loads because of them disagree though."

There's an amusing thought going through a certain Mun's mind...of Kit pouncing on a crowd of cabinet minister and causing them to all fall down literally. Moving right along...

"Wow..."

Petra just smiles and sips her drink.

"When I came back this time he decided to stay. His favorate target is Peter, but he's gotten better at avoiding Kit."

Bonzo grins.

"Does he always avoid trouble that well?"

Petra glowers for a bit.

"Yes. The man has infernaly good luck."

The girls shakes her head and stands up.

"Time for me to go..."

She pauses and looks at the saber in her hand before setting it on the table.

"We'll spar again aye? Have a good night."

And she walks away.

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