They usually groan in the background. [ He can still remember the reactions to his charging out to demand those in King's Row to come out and fight him after they had been told to be quiet. A knight wasn't quiet. They didn't sneak about! But he supposed Jack must have planned for that too. Still, her words make him smile a little.]

You sound like you've had a lot of experience with that. I've never been a commander so I've never had that headache. But I can see your point of view even if I can't agree with it.

[ He can't because that's what the Crusaders ultimately were. The men and women you threw at a problem. All of them gone, but a sacrifice that had to be made for the good of all. ] But I suppose that's because I was part of a shield wall. We're made to be thrown at a problem and stopping it in it's tracks. And you, ma'am?