"...Truthfully, I don't know. I don't trust him, but I can't write him off as some tyrant and call that the end of it. There's enough bits and pieces floating about that make it not so - but I think what really cinched it was the trial itself. Why he had to do that, but that he could do it at all. Rules are powerful, and I know some will think it's cowardly he did it that way, but I have to wonder."

Her hands tap on each other, thoughtful. "Rituals are very specific things...anyway, I've made a choice that I am going to get to know him before I decide what kind of person he is. Impressions will be distorted any other way. And I will not let someone pass themselves off as the Captain to me again."