She was made for war, but so were they: she had realized early in adolescence that the absolute limits of her body’s abilities would still never beat the boys. She’d had to succeed a different way. Mags had needed Avi to talk him through beating Doomsday. But Kyr had nearly beaten it alone less than a week ago—after Jole had made it harder. She was good at thinking her way through an impossible fight. It was the one thing she was better at than Mags.
