He hadn't felt this excited to face a woman since he could ever remember. Watching her matches so far put a fire in him that he had never felt before ...atching a woman before.As the official called the start to the match, Rachel and Daniel rushed forward into the fight.The ringing of their blades could be heard through out the arena and well beyond.At one point Daniel threw an overhead kick at Rachel, but she stepped to the side, and as he missed she threw a savage elbow at his throat as she. The first, representing the traditional method, featured the universities existing professors and professionals applying whichever techniques they wished to achieve the best possible outcome they could. That included combining different procedures and conflicting schools, whatever might produce the biggest bang for the buck.Competing against that group, I took on the second, using my previous method. Only ... that proved to be more difficult than we planned. Not only is it physically stressing. Lenore sat next to him, and studied him for a moment."Gunny." He started at the sound of her voice. "Just be a friend on this boat for a little while, okay?"Without looking to see if he'd agreed, Lenore continued after a short pause. "Tell me what Korea was like. Not the war, the place."The Gunny relaxed slightly. "I was there twice ... once in the war, and once for a short while with the fleet, later. That first time, the countryside stank, and the ports were worse. Back in the war, I was a. I fell and stumbled, and hit my knee, or fell into the lake with my clothes on — that happened only once! And those things happened not because I was clumsy, but I thought of either Alexander or Vicdaen, and I was totally distracted and I am just happy I did not land myself into bigger trouble.Sooner or later in the absence of my two — alright, only one — suitors, I stopped thinking about one of them, and what was left of my thoughts of them were undeniably spent thinking of the other. I felt a.