“Yeah,” Chloe sighs, imagining it. “Lots of those guys, when you're subordinate to them, they don't see you at all.”

What a waste.

“Maybe he feels bad, now that it doesn't matter, about how all that went down?” She doesn't know him, so it's hard to say. “Or like, legally you're equals now, I guess. No one is in the Royal Navy here, huh.”