"Why, the bear-wrestling pits, of course!" He grins back at her, delighted by her delight. Oh, there really is something so enchanting about the way her face lights up. Not in a regular pretty-girl-smiling sort of way - in a way that really makes his heart glad. She bears up under so much...

"Don't you know of them? They're all the rage on Jackson's Whole. You place a bet - ferocious girl versus ferocious bear. Why, you'd have the most formidable genengineered grizzlies flat on their backs in seconds."