There were third year high initiates Voss and Kieran.
Voss was a well defined woman. She had a core integration that Bright's spatial awareness read as force-multiplication, a talent that had been developed for close-range engagement over distance engagement. She looked at Bright with the expression of someone who had been assigned to a lesser student's formation and was reserving judgment on how that would go.
Kieran was quieter. He looked younger than most and had the quality of someone who had years to get used to it and had arrived at something more measured than pride. He was watching the platoon with the same cataloguing attention that Bright was using, which told Bright that they had the same professional habit, which told him something about Kieran's development path.
"You've done field work," Bright said to Kieran, during the first break in the formation proceedings.
