ÒRather than attack straight on, she leaps obliquely, using her stronger right arm to strike at ShinÕs flank. Barely getting his bokken up in time, he muses that it was good that he had to face the schoolÕs nominal leader, Xandro, in the old spaceship Skipjack, rather than senior student Felice. he also muses about the odd twists of fate that lead them to be friends.