“She knows she doesn’t belong in that uniform.”

Passengers along the row turned their heads and watched the scene play out in awkward silence, nobody quite willing to step in and nobody able to look away.

I didn’t move.

I picked up my paperback again and rested it open on my lap, my thumb still resting on my loose rank pin.

Some people spend their whole lives looking for a fight they can’t win.

Evan took three slow, deliberate steps across the walkway and stopped right at the end of my row.