Joshua casually strolled past the various hoodlums and vendors of the Circuit, as he made his way to shifu's newly designated meeting place. Today was his weekend training as usual, and he was looking forward to stretch his limbs and loosen up his mind after a grueling week of tests at school. However, he also heard the last time he met with shifu that he would also have a job waiting for Josh today. By the strange tone of his voice and twinkle in the old man's eye, Josh had a feeling it would be something bigger than the usual courier jobs he ran the past few months. He felt the nervous excitement tingle his spine; he wasn't exactly averse to making money on the side, but despite his family connections to the Dragon binding his consciousness, bending or breaking the law wasn't exactly his favorite activity, especially when coupled with the irony of studying law at school.

Normally, a 16 year old teenager like him walking the avenues of the Circuit would stick out like a sore thumb, unless he was a courier passing through or underage prostitute. No doubt its shady inhabitants gave him the leery eye as he passed by their dens, but Joshua wasn't worried about them going further than that. There went an unspoken rule in the Circuit: equal terms, equal trade, equal treatment. As long as Josh didn't purposefully make a nuisance of himself, no one would go out of their way to mess with him. And even if they did, pulling anything more than a punch against an unarmed kid could warrant them being thrown out and left to rot in an alley or on a stake; besides, some people already knew what happens when they pick a fight with a martial artist.