combat practice

I have, in general, not had fun during my service as a Warden of the White Council. I have taken no enjoyment whatsoever in becoming a soldier in the war with the Vampire Courts. Doing battle with the forces of...
I was going to say evil, but I'm increasingly unsure exactly where everyone around me falls on the Jedi-Sith Index.
Doing battle with the forces of things trying to kill me, or my friends, or people who can't protect themselves is not a rowdy summer adventure movie. It's a nightmare. Everything is violence and confusion, fear and rage, pain and exhilaration. It all happens fast, and there's never time to think, never any way to be sure of anything.
It's awful, really - but I do have to admit that there's been one positive thing about the situation:
I've gotten in a lot of extra practice at combat wizardry.
And ever since New Mexico, I had absolutely no reservations about ripping ghouls apart with it.


White Night Chapter 21, page 199