All this intrigues him. First-rate artists are rare, and ones who are also 
female are rarer still. He wonders what sort of female might succeed in so 
dangerous a trade as his. She must be very strong and clever. Perhaps 
exceedingly clever, to compensate for a female’s lesser strength. It almost goes
without saying that she must be cybernetically enhanced, and yet this would 
seem unlikely if the rumors about her magic, her edge, are true.