It was never shame.

It was professional restraint.

There is a difference, and it is a large one, and you have all just spent two years failing to notice it.”

Chapter 15 — The Table by the Door

“Even if every word of that is true,” Sabetha said, seizing at it, “it only proves my point!

A woman in the military — the travel, the danger, giving orders to grown men — that child needs stability, and she will never have it with —”