"One man. He calls himself Vargas." Stephanie took a sharp breath in. "Shinobi hired him to kill me, but he said something about wanting me to serve as a lesson. I was ... unconscious for a lot of it. I'm told I looked like a human pretzel ..." There was something about that which made her laugh, perhaps only because she was halfway to the stratosphere on pain medication.

"Dr. McCoy tells me I should be able to make a full recovery, though I might have problems with joint pain the rest of my life. It's hard to say for sure. The dislocations were ... very neat, apparently. Hardly any collateral damage around them."