Huff. Huff. Pant. Pant. Yuri Kirisawa forced herself to her feet once more, a heavy stream of blood flowing down the right side of her face, forcing her to keep her right eye closed to prevent the blood from entering her eye. Like the rest of her, her clothes were all messed up as well, and the right sleeve of her coat was barely hanging on.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury. - Marcus Aurelius, Mediations * * * * 

“Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel. “Fallen, no more to rise, is the virgin Israel, forsaken on her land, with none to raise her up.” - Amos 5:1 * * * * 

Just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. - Romans 6:4 * * * * 

An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind. - Mahatma Gandhi * * * *