I'd never seen so much snow before I came here - back home, we had this sort of barrier around our district, I suppose you'd say, and it kept the worst of it away. I guess I was unprepared, which isn't that much of a surprise, somehow. I never was one for field exercises.

{A soft 'hah' escapes her; it could be a sigh, it could be a laugh.}

Sometimes I wonder how I made Lieutenant with such little experience.