Normalcy was now well established, even if she'd only been in San Francisco for a matter of months. She walked these streets to fill in for the apparent lack of ethical education in these modern times, in such a primitive city as this. She was a judgment, a divine decree passed on miserable fools.

She struck the man in the kidney first, let the wet crunch she so keenly listened for inform her of the precise degree of damage she'd delivered to the abusive whoremonger who was the recipient of tonight's lessons. She heard his garbled cry of pain, and she knew that she had done what she'd intended.

It was frankly mechanical, her schedule, as she wondered how much of her attention was really called of r in her hunts. But this tended to occur between her hunts, rather than within them. When she worked, she upheld the utmost vigilance.

He turned and made the pretense of being capable of defending himself, but she saw right through it. Looking at his drunken, indignant face reminded her of the crimes she duly suspected he was guilty of.

The needle at the bottom of the ocean, she thought, and grinned with the perfection of such a followup. His exquisite pain at being struck directly at the site of one of his more heinous acts was expected, but she did not feel as though he had the right to complain. Her other hand struck his throat as she swept his leg out from under him, toppling him with sufficient force that he didn't have the breath to scream.

But was this all really enough? Was a lone existence in the night sufficient for Minnie's cognitive powers? There was only one course of action that made sense for one so eternally curious.

She heard whispers in the night, among the dead, of something greater. Significant debate seemed to rage about whether there was more, whether they were set with a truly Divine purpose. And her laboriously read yet still nearly pristine copy of the Testament was something she'd be sure to bring with her when she went to investigate.

But first, she was going to make sure this one wasn't capable of Sinning tomorrow.