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pushed off the ground hard, and he reacted instinctively to oppose
her effort, to keep her down. He shifted his balance and leaned over her. She
slid her fingers inside his right hand, grabbed across his palm and thumb, and
twisted all the joints of his right arm out and away from his body. He found
himself running as fast as he could face first into the side of the building.
The pain in his arm was excruciating. Hitting the wall was almost preferable to
trying to resist her.
    He yowled in pain, his face
bloodied, his nose bent grotesquely to one side. Enraged and not a little
disoriented, he lunged at her. Strangely, she seemed not to resist. He had her
in his grasp for an instant before he felt her hand behind his elbow, swinging
him around. He crashed into one of the other men, heads colliding like
pumpkins. They lay in a heap for a moment, stunned, blood oozing out of their
faces, watching as she turned to the other two men. One of them seemed to know
karate. He swung a roundhouse kick at her head. She leaned back and out of the
way. As he pulled his foot back and down, she hooked his ankle with her left
foot and pulled him towards her. Her behavior was uncanny. She hadn’t run away,
or even retreated from him. As he fell forward, he spread his arms in a vain
attempt to regain his balance. But she pulled his foot even further forward,
forcing him into a perfect hurdler’s split. He felt his hip grind as he went
down. The pain was almost unbearable. She punched him in the throat, sharply,
as he fell. He gasped for breath. The thought occurred to her that she might
have crushed his windpipe. “This isn’t the dojo,” she told herself.
    The last man grabbed her pony tail
from behind. He hoped to control her as he grabbed her with his other arm. He
expected her to pull away, so he could yank her head back. To his surprise, she
spun into him, wrapping her right arm over his elbow and under. She forced his
elbow up at the same time as she forced his shoulder down. He could feel the
enormous pressure on the back of his elbow. There didn’t seem to be any
coherent way to move his body to extricate himself from her grip. Of course,
this thought barely had time to register. He wasn’t even able to struggle with
her. She was so close to his chest he couldn’t even grab her. She drove the
heel of her left palm under his chin with a quick, sharp blow. He felt his
teeth crack through his tongue just as his elbow snapped. He crumpled to the
ground in tears, his mind awhirl. What had just happened? He was unable to
focus on anything outside of his own pain. Where was she?
    She turned to the first two men,
still feeling the rush of ferocity she had just unleashed. The one with the
broken face, groggy but barely conscious, moved to pick himself up. Then he saw
her eyes and shuddered. He felt a tingling numbness radiate from his head. He
was sweating profusely and began to feel dizzy. She turned to Danny. They had
worked him over a bit, but he wasn’t seriously hurt. They hadn’t had much time,
and had not hit him in the face. At least he would be spared a lot of questions
at home. She helped him up and led him back to his truck. They left before the
police got there.
    On the way home, she reassured
Danny about what happened. Just some thugs looking for trouble. No deeper
meaning in it. He had been brave. Fortunately for him, he had not seen just how
thoroughly she had rescued him. But she had other things to think about, things
that were more important than massaging his ego. Who were those guys? And what
did they want? Was it just a random attack, or had they been marking them all
evening? Perhaps even longer?
    These were troubling questions. But
an even more troubling thought kept nudging its way into her consciousness. Had
she reacted too fiercely? She was not concerned for those men. They had meant
to do much worse to her. Exactly what they had in mind, she didn’t know. But
she had felt the malevolence in them. They were