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She goes to the evil academy of space. She studies with Fan Hoeng princes and princesses, awful space-beasts, and all manner of wicked things.

She climbs the ladder of rock-paper-scissors contenders.

She becomes a budding legend of the game.

Perfection eludes her, though. She loses one time in three. No matter how many people she kills, no matter how great her mastery of every subject, she cannot defeat the highest echelon of rock-paper-scissors contenders.

There is something in her that is incomplete.

That is her weakness. That is her flaw. The game that she loves best becomes her enemy. She pounds herself will, mind, and body against a barrier that she cannot seem to break.

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