"Seeming and being are two very different things. Keep something in mind kid: not every bad person is going to be cackling in the dark in some weird as getup, twiddling their handlebar mustache. If you want to know how bad I am, just think of, say, you're very best person you know, the person that stops bad things. Imagine they do it by beating the ever loving shit out of their enemy and blowing them up. That's me."

She nodded. "Good. You'll need to know. One thing you don't want to do is go into the Arena blind."