<strong>"Given what you were doing for a living only a week ago?  You're doing pretty good, I'd say.  Not that most people's career paths go like, ah, shop girl to gladiatrix in one step like this."</strong><br/><br/>Phil lets out another rumbling laugh.<br/><br/><strong>"No shit?"</strong><br/><br/><strong>"No shit, <em>mon frere</em>."</strong>Junior grins and jerks a thumb at you.<strong>"She's good enough to hold me off for a bit, at least, just from pure potential.  Some actual skills behind that, and she'll be a force with which to reckon."</strong>