"I don't have the physical tools for a reason," Tyler said. "The reason is that I don't have them!"
"You can't simply decide to—"
"I'm not telling you to fight them," Mike said. "I'm telling you that the version of you that exists right now is someone who can be put on the ground in an alley at two in the morning, and the version of you that could exist with six months of actual work is considerably harder to put there."
"Physical training," Tyler said, and there was something in his voice that was not quite dismissal but was in the vicinity.
"Among other things," Mike explained. "Awareness, positioning, and the ability to read a situation before it escalates."
"You were walking into that alley thinking about your schedule!"
"You should have read that alley from the entrance and never entered it."
"I didn't see them at all," Tyler said. "It's honestly surprising for me."
"You weren't paying attention," Mike said. "You were too focused on calculations."
