Suddenly Kota was moving, charging with astonishing speed behind a furious diversity
of strokes. The apprentice retreated with lips pulled back over his teeth. This is
more like it! Green and red energies clashed as he blocked blow after blow and still
Kota kept coming, attempting to overwhelm him with sheer determination and speed.
The apprentice went back four steps, then stopped. He drew his blade close around
him, forming a tight defense in deliberate imitation of the Soresu style that
Obi-Wan Kenobi had favored. Realizing he couldn't penetrate it, Kota backed off and
tried a different style-slow, deliberate, with sudden and devastatingly quick
strikes. These, too, the apprentice parried, and when the old man's guard looked to
be slipping, he offered strikes of his own.

Chapter 3