“So you were off to Southampton? To stow away on a ship and see the world?”Penny confined herself to a snort.“Why Southampton then?”“‘Cos ...he first place you’d look for me was Pitsbury and I thought that with it being a busy road I might hitch a lift.”“And get molested again by some lout of a lorry driver.”Penny looked down. “I didn’t even think about it.”“You must have been in a state.”“Yes.” It was no more than a whisper.“Well, nothing did happen to you except, thank goodness, Caroline. I'm not exactly sure how Alexandria handles it." What the fuck did you do to him?" Billy demanded, growing more visibly upset, pointing his pistol at Alex's face."This would have been more dramatic if you could have felt it, but Alexandria froze his brain from the inside out," Alex calmly announced as he casually brushed some lint off of his sleeve. "Apparently she didn't think she needed to freeze the entire thing, but as you can see, it's quite effective. Still, I can see the logic in her. . You might call it godspeed noutoujutsu*. Just like the cry of a dragon, the high-pitched sound of the sheath's reverberations strike the opponent's heightened senses and paralyze them. This is the Hiten Mitsurugi-ryuu Ryuumeisen. * noutoujutsu "sword-sheathing techniques;" i.e. the opposite of battoujutsu--maigoEnishi: You... (He tries to get up, slips, and falls to his knees again.)Kenshin: However, because of your Kyoukeimyaku, that wouldn't be its only effect. The Ryuumeisen's sound would. I would just like to say, before we get involved with this matter, that the story in the Record-Herald last week was as much a surprise to all of us on council as it was to you, and about all we know about it is what you read. This is serious business here tonight, and I will not tolerate any demonstrations or remarks out of turn, and I will ask the police to eject anyone causing a disturbance. Is that clear?"The room remained relatively quiet, with a low buzz of whispers filling the silence..