"Call it what you want: killer, vigilante justice, whatever," Mindy replied. "No one is looking out for people in my world, because they're too afraid of what can happen to them. To be a hero in my world, you have to look death in the face and laugh. If you can do that, you're suited to live and do what you can. If you can't, you're a chickenshit like the rest of them, and you get under the boot of the maniacs that do whatever they want. Death comes whether you're ten or a hundred, as far as I'm concerned."

She shrugged. "The title is usually something someone throws at you whether you want it or not. But people also need that symbol if they're going to get any courage to begin with. So really, its something you have to choose. So if you have any sort of horror at what I do, save it. I had my reasons for doing it, like any other hero."

Whether she would do it anymore was the question.