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tonight. An attractive Middle Eastern woman with short, spikey, black hair and brown eyes walks into the building wearing army green cargo pants and a black tank top; she’s the same body type as Sara, if you add two inches to Sara’s height.
    “ Is this the one?” Nahid asks Saquib while gesturing to me; he nods in response.
    “ Hmm, he’s cute…” Nahid says with a flat face and then a smile flashes across her face as she gets a devious glint in her eye. Thanks to Tia, I am rather familiar with this glint so I brace myself.
    Nahid throws her punch toward my throat with a follow up to my solar plexus. She’s fast; without the glint that indicated her intentions, I never would have seen the first punch coming. She’s at least as quick as Tia and the ‘red’ vampires, but I’m still faster. My vision kicks in and I discover why she is so fast: Nahid is a demigod.
    I block the punch to my throat, but I allow the shot to my solar plexus to connect so I can gauge her strength and enjoy the confusion on her face when she punches the ‘brick wall’ of my jacket. Both her strength and her resulting confusion are considerable. I unzip my jacket and shrug it off before slipping off my holster.
    “ I don’t want to have too much of an advantage.” I boast and Nahid smirks in response before engaging me again.
    Based on the frequency of her attacks to my body’s major vulnerabilities, her use of her elbows and knees, and her use of pre-emptive strikes, I’d say she is most likely trained in Krav Maga. I continue to block and dodge as she presses her attacks with her men cheering her on. I’m in a bit of a rough situation. I can end this fight relatively easily because I have her beat in speed with an equal amount of strength and skill. I want to show her and her men that I’m not someone to mess with, but I don’t want to ruin the confidence that the soldiers have for her by destroying her outright. However, I also can’t throw the fight because I get the feeling that it would be a grave offence if I allow her to win.
    I start slowing down and allow her punches to hit my face, but she catches on immediately. I watch as Nahid becomes angrier the more her strikes connect. Yeah, throwing the fight definitely won’t fly so I start striking back while avoiding her face and looking for a way to end this fight without harming her too much. She clocks me good with a powerful fist to my temple that allows me to see stars.
    Nahid is following up with two more punches that will likely put me down so I duck down and to the right to deliver an accurate strike to her left ulnar nerve, her funny bone; I repeat for her right. With both arms immobilized momentarily, I sweep around behind her as she tries to throw her left knee into my groin. I squat down slightly and put her in a headlock while sweeping out her right leg. I straighten up while bending backwards to relieve some of the strain from her neck. She kicks back with her legs to try and get me in the balls, but I’m out of her range and she can’t do anything else offensively without her arms. I wait until Nahid’s eyes flutter closed as her body goes slack, and then I immediately let up on the chokehold and gently lower her to the ground.
    “ Wow… I’ve never seen anyone beat the Colonel before.” One of the soldiers whispers.
    “ That was quite impressive Cole; defeating a daughter Ereshkigal/Inanna’s War persona is no simple feat.” Saquib says.
    Great, so I just possibly made an enemy of the Mesopotamian goddess of the underworld’s war persona, as well as the Mesopotamian goddess of fertility, which is the same goddess in some sources. I neglect to respond and just wait beside Nahid until she awakens about ten minutes later. She regards me with a look of disgust.
    “ Alright, let’s get moving.” Nahid orders and then exits the building with four soldiers following her; by the way Mr. trigger-happy is stumbling along, my guess is that he was injected