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@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@ The brief was short. Guild briefs, I was learning, operated like the guild itsel
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I set the brief down and flexed my right hand. Opened it, closed it. Tried to remember the last time I'd thrown a fire weave in anything other than my own head.
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Four years. Maybe five. The muscle memory was there — I could feel the ghost of it in my fingers, the way a sequence of runes and gestures lived in the hands long after the brain stopped rehearsing them. But muscle memory without stamina was a loaded weapon with a short fuse. I could probably manage two, three combat workings before the tank hit empty. After that, I'd be throwing punches with hands that hadn't hit anything harder than a herb crate in three years.
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Three years. Maybe four. The muscle memory was there — I could feel the ghost of it in my fingers, the way a sequence of runes and gestures lived in the hands long after the brain stopped rehearsing them. But muscle memory without stamina was a loaded weapon with a short fuse. I could probably manage two, three combat workings before the tank hit empty. After that, I'd be throwing punches with hands that hadn't hit anything harder than a herb crate in three years.
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The brief said "moderate." The brief was written by someone sitting in an office on Greystone Lane.
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