In this life, there is one simple truth... Strength, skill, no matter how extraordinary is worthless if it's not applied. And no amount of talent or strength will outmatch a gun. That reality was drilled into my brain like a trauma when the woman I loved was attacked. That day forward, I lost my reason to live, burdened by a cloak of desire and frustration, rolling with and fighting street thugs.
That's how I came to know a particular strange bastard.
"If there were a place that let you do anything you wanted......" he said, "if you could HAVE anything you wanted, would you go?"