[Training] Past the event horizon

Noe

Best believe I'm still bejeweled
When I walk in the room, I can still make the whole place shimmer

Noe had never really considered combat as an option. It wasn't that she looked upon it with disdain - it had its place, after all - but it wasn't something she'd been interested in. She often wondered if she'd disappointed her mother when she'd chosen a different path, but she never would have been happy as a soldier. But there was something to be said for having solid self-defense abilities, and especially after having been infected, Noe was determined never to be helpless again.

"Well, if I'm going to be traveling alone, I should be prepared, right?" she asked, stretching her arms over her head. "Mostly I guess I just want to be able to defend myself. Just in case." She didn't say in case of what. Surely Maea was creative enough to be able to imagine all kinds of trouble that a lone woman could get into on the road - especially one as small and weak looking as Noe.

And when I meet the band, they ask, "Do you have a man?"
I can still say, "I don't remember"