When someone threatens our rights, however, a wider leeway becomes necessary.
Follow your instincts while bearing in mind that we must, and will, hew to our principles.
A woman holding a thrashing baby in one arm may have trouble aiming a firearm with the other.
Bullets do actually whistle in an enclosed space.
If a person has shot at you once and missed, incapacitate her before she can fire again.
We are most reluctant to harm those who remind us of ourselves.
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There is lag time between getting shot and knowing that you have been shot.
Assuming no artery involvement, wounds to the upper limbs are preferable.
Bony, tendony body parts bleed less but are harder to reconstruct if shattered.
The right shoulder is a bony, tendony part.
When shots have been fired in a powerful man’s home, you have minutes, if not seconds, before the arrival of security.
Your physical person is our Black Box; without it, we have no record of what has transpired on your mission.
It is essential that you remove yourself from enemy possession.
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When you find yourself cornered and outnumbered, you may unleash, as a last resort, your Primal Roar.
The Primal Roar is the human equivalent of an explosion, a sound that combines screaming, shrieking, and howling.
The Roar must be accompanied by facial contortions and frenetic body movements suggesting a feral, unhinged state.
The Primal Roar must transform you from a beauty into a monster.
The goal is to horrify your opponent the way trusted figures, turned evil, are horrifying in children’s stories and in nightmares.
Deploy your camera flash repeatedly while Roaring.
When approached by a howling, spasmodic, flashing monster, a woman holding her newborn will quickly step aside.
Discontinue Roaring the instant you’re free from immediate danger.
Those stampeding to the aid of a powerful man will barely notice a disheveled beauty they pass in his hallway.
If you’re lucky, this will buy you time to flee the house.
Resume your beauty role while running: Smooth your hair and cover your bleeding wound with the sundress scrunched in your pocket.
The fact that you can’t hear alarms doesn’t mean you haven’t set them off.
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After violence in a closed room, cool night air will have a clarifying effect.
Get to the bottom of a steep dirt path any way you can, including sliding and rolling.
In residences of the violent rich, there will be at least one guard at each port of egress.
In deep night, if you are extremely lucky （and quiet）， that guard will be asleep.
Assume, as best you can, the air of a beauty larkishly gamboling.
If running barefoot onto a dock transports you back to your childhood, pain may be making you hallucinate.
Lying on a warm dock near a country club, holding a boy’s hand for the very first time, is a sensation you remember after many years.
Hindsight creates an illusion that your life has led you inevitably to the present moment.
It’s easier to believe in a foregone conclusion than to accept that our lives are governed by random chance.
Showing up for a robotics course by accident, because of a room-assignment mix-up with your Homer class, is random chance.