[Pepper is going to skip to the end on this one, since the first question is hitting a little closer to home than she'd like to discuss.]

I'm not an expert in hand-to-hand but I've been learning. Usually I'm at Jade Dojo about four days a week; we can try sparring, if you'd like.

[Heather was more likely to go hard on her than Gene, who had been teaching her to fight both hand-to-hand and with a sword.]