"Perhaps I will, sometime." The last port Beyond experienced had been much like what she's describing - a carnival resort built around sadistic games of chance, pitting the Barge's warden population against impossible odds to pay off the artificial debts of their inmates. Beyond offered up an important memory to keep his warden out of harm's way, and it only ended up causing problems elsewhere. No, there were no winners in that particular game - none except the Ringmaster.

If he had to choose all over again, Beyond knows he wouldn't last a minute in the arena with whatever horrors the Ringmaster thought up, and he estimates he wouldn't stay dead, either. But perhaps death, even a temporary one, would have been the better choice, all told, in that instance.

"You're speaking of games as in the Roman ludi, yes? Gladiator games?" He's read of women gladiators in historical records, of course, but it's something entirely different to find oneself face to face with one. "Am I supposed to be your opponent?"