"Ah-- right, uh, thank you. And... For what it is worth..." She pauses, unsure of how to frame her calculations in the cold light of strategy. "Morale is important. To know it will happen is important. Will to fight is what makes a technical charge a tank, and lack of it is what makes a tank drop smoke and run. I know these things. ... But it is another thing, to believe."

"Before you go-- what is your name?"