"Doing what is right is not always a task easily accomplished," she replies, though not unkindly. She speaks with a practised, balanced kind of calm, an eternal kind of steadiness. "We are rarely faced with good choices in war."

It's not exactly reassuring or a pat on the back, but she does glance to him, and the look holds more empathy than anything else, even if her manner is very controlled. "You sound an honourable man. I hope that next we work together it goes more happily than this."