A Young Officer Asked A Woman What People Used To Call Her Until Her Answer Changed Everything

was not particularly tall, and there was nothing theatrical about the way she stood. But something in the stillness she settled into altered the geometry of the space around her. Davis saw, for the first time, an expression on her face that was not anger.

It was pity.

“As you wish, Captain,” she said.

She reached back and picked up the flight jacket.

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