Excellent, Krista.. I can find only one thing about this section
that I'm uncertain about. Nabiki shooting Cologne in the shoulder. As
Cologne herself noted, she might still be able to take Nabiki, then force
the wedding of Shampoo to Ranma.

	Knowing Nabiki, and her ruthlessness. I feel that while she might
not have gone for an immediately fatal shot, she certainly would have gone
for one that would ensure Cologne's death even if she herself was taken
down.

	Namely, a gut shot. Stomach wounds are almost always fatal unless
promptly treated. And that means _modern_ treatment, not traditional
herbal medicine. Peritonitis is one thing that no pre-industrial culture
I'm aware of has ever been able to deal with. Torn intestines, leaking
feces into the abdominal cavity kills, and kills in a particularly nasty
manner. Cologne would be aware of that. She'd be faced with a choice,
immediate medical care at a class-3 trauma facility, or death.

	Nabiki, being who she is, might decide to go for such a shot as
insurance.. after all, she's well aware that Cologne might be able to take
her. So, not being a careless risk-taker, she might go for the shot that
insures her victory even should she die. A logical decision. Cold logic.

	Cologne, being who she is, would be torn.. Ranma might still
escape should she die. Yet, if she attended to herself... he might also
escape, but she'd be alive to try again.

	The question there being.. is Cologne the type to believe in the
old saw, 'he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day'?

	That, as the Bard was found of saying, is the question.

	Just a little philosophy from the ol' philosopher.

	Ed Becerra

	"Dreamers may die, but the Dream is eternal..."