"Long enough." Lei replies. The crowd is dispersing now that the show is over, so she finds a place to sit. How long even had it been since the Old Man took her and the others in? The days flowed together, looking back. Sometimes, it felt like a lifetime ago. In a way, it was; Lei was not the sane person as the cocky young bandit who'd ambushed what she thought looked like an easy mark one morning and been proven harshly wrong.

"My name's Lei. Know much about martial arts?" He's a fighter of course, or he wouldn't be wearing that uniform. But most soldiers preferred weapons to fists, at least the ones back home.