She could only say it was lucky the Nightingale wasn't specialized in Shadow Dance—otherwise the other side would have taken her life already.
Even so, the bloody wound on her right shoulder was left by him—that was the keepsake from his first ambush. That time she only survived because her Shadow Mark had warned her ahead of time—otherwise the wound wouldn't be on her shoulder but twenty centimeters further to the left, cutting into her throat.
Alice had used Shadow Walk Technique once to escape from close combat, but a Shadow Dancer can only Shadow Walk one hundred and twenty feet in a day; she'd already used half that distance before, and now she only had one more use left.
