The Least Common Denominator

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"Not fair..."

"Life's not fair, Livia, remember?"

Livia winced under my care as I carefully treated the wounds I gave her during our sparring session. While she utterly destroyed me during our shortsword-only bout, I had decimated her on every other weapon. Her bow rifle had proved to be too heavy for her despite it being of her own design, and thus that was back on the drawing board for her to fix. Then came the no-holds-barred final round where I actually showed her my Numerator powers.

She fought valiantly for all of thirty seconds before I blindsided her by a sudden burst of flame.

"I thought we were both Dens till the end of time," Livia pouted as I moved to treat a small cut on her side. "Since when did you become a Num all of a sudden?"

"To be honest, I really don't know," I sighed as