It seems she was not ordinarily ill-famed, as men use the word. She was maybe sixty years in age, small and trig, with her grey hair folded neatly under her mutch. But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget.

Trop., of a secret conspiracy, Cic. Mur. 37, 78.

Two other Meister-Weapon teams — the cocky, would-be ninja Black Star and the saintlike, multi-weapon Tsubaki; and Death the Kid, Death’s son who has crippling asymmetriphobia, with sisters Liz & Patty Thompson, who dress like cowgirls and turn into guns — are in the same boat.

Thou hast been trained from thy post by some deep guile — some well-devised stratagem — the cry of some distressed maiden has caught thine ear, or the laughful look of some merry one has taken thine eye.