"Of course," I say, and I'll be damned if I can help the smile that tugs at my mouth, laughing at a joke I doubt she's even aware of making. I turned to the law to help make sense of the chaos around me, and I turned to alternative means when even the very system I fought for wasn't quite enough. A lawyer by day, a vigilante by night.

"Fisticuffs don't really go with the entrée."