"You should tell York and North that he'll shut it down if we broach the subject of going into his head," Stacia says. Which is what she had predicted, but: "They'll defer to you. I'm an outsider, and a teenage girl besides; they're going to doubt my judgment."
Even if they knew her rank, they wouldn't understand what it meant, or what it meant that she'd obtained it at her age. Dealing with humans now counts as "cross-cultural", and cross-cultural dealings are hard.
She listens sympathetically as Carolina speaks about her relationship with Washington, but it's the last part that transforms her expression into confusion.
"What? No. Why? He's going to need your help in the aftermath. If you can convince the guys not to warn him first, I'll keep the rest of you out of it. He knows I'm a magical creature who doesn't respect human personal bubbles, it's not going to hurt either of us for him to be mad at me."
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Even if they knew her rank, they wouldn't understand what it meant, or what it meant that she'd obtained it at her age. Dealing with humans now counts as "cross-cultural", and cross-cultural dealings are hard.
She listens sympathetically as Carolina speaks about her relationship with Washington, but it's the last part that transforms her expression into confusion.
"What? No. Why? He's going to need your help in the aftermath. If you can convince the guys not to warn him first, I'll keep the rest of you out of it. He knows I'm a magical creature who doesn't respect human personal bubbles, it's not going to hurt either of us for him to be mad at me."