Cassie had understood perfectly well why she hadn't been more severely punished for going off the reservation. No punishment they could devise could be worse than what resulted from it. In this case, what hadn't killed her had made her a better soldier. She's frankly glad she doesn't still have nightmares over it.

But they're moving past that now. Instead she forces a slight smile.

"Yeah, bunch of people trapped on a train might need an outlet? Go figure, right?"