She turned her head, as if looking straight through the walls at some indeterminate point a great distance away. "...He told me, 'To be the Seven is to be the finest of all the Stellar Dancers, the most skilled and the most accomplished. Whenever we spar, Pureza, you emerge victorious. This is why you are the Seven. But even when I lose, do you not in winning feel as if you have learned something new as well?'"