Chapter 53: Medicine Valley

Rose slipped sideways and his punch sliced through empty air. Missing only made him angrier. He drew himself up to swing again, but Rose had no intention of giving him a second chance. She snapped a hand around his forearm, wrenched it up behind his back as if cuffing a felon, then drove her boot into his waist. He shot back several yards and hit the ground hard enough to leave a crater. The crowd of patients gaped, stunned into silence. She looked slim and wiry, yet she hit like a hammer. After...