"Bring it, girlfriend."
Slider lost her concentration and burst out laughing. "I highly doubt an
agent is going to taunt me with that!" she exclaimed, giggling.
"You never know. The new agents are better at disguising themselves in the
system, and it works better if they use the same dialect as the people
they're imitating." Raffi wiped sweat from his brow. "Let's take a break,
okay? I think we've trained enough for now."
"Enough?! Enough? How can you say we've done enough for now?" Slider swung
her arms about wildly, looking extraordinarily silly in her black training
outfit as she did a kind of wild jig around the room. "We can never be sure
when we have to fight the agents, when we have to use every last bit of
strength to make sure they don't come after us, and you think we've had
ENOUGH?!" Raffi backed away from the bellowing girl before him. "How can
you say we've had enough? We could be killed! We could die! We are the
city's hope, and you think we've trained enough?"
Raffi defensively raised his hands. "Ok, ok, we'll get back to work." He
fell into the fighting stance, ready to push his tired muscles just a
little more.
"No I was just kidding. Let's grab some lunch." Ariel walked past Raffi and
slung a towel over her shoulder. "Last one to she shower is a bowl of
Tasty Wheat!"
