"Those freaks out there nearly killed me and my brother in a way Sensei warned us against our whole lives. A way we hadn't even been able to able to imagine enough well enough to be scared of it."

He kept doing his pushups.

"Mikey was playing with the elves. He deserved some time not thinking about stuff. And they don't get that I'm a ninja. One of the most important things to a ninja is coming home at the end of the day but one of the other most important things is winning the fights in your own head."