Chapter 12: Dance Summary

Despite having a healing thigh from the removed bullet, the Red Adept still being at large, and the fact that round 10 is rarified territory, Stile defeats Track, a man of his own age, thanks to the devoted care of his ladies in both frames, including the Yellow Adept, who provides a potion for accelerated healing. A fifteen-year-old Citizen defeats Stile in the eleventh round, and he returns to Phaze for a night of healing with the Yellow Adept tending to him. When Sheen reports that the Red Adept has shown up in the Tourney, Stile realizes he will eventually come up against his enemy if they both continue to win, and this happens in the next round. Stile realizes that defeating the Red Adept in the Tourney and sending her to exile will fulfill his oath to end her, but she...