There's a lot of versions of that story, and in preparation, Reshad has been reviewing which are the most likely to be factual. There's no point in belaboring him with ghosts.

"You turned coat," she confirms. He'd told them as much in his interrogation: he planned to, when the time was right. That leaves a lot of missing 'why.'

"There was a massacre." The history books would put every death at his feet. "But I wonder: you were the only person alive on the bridge, and one person doesn't kill a fleet without help."

She's watching him, uncertain how this news will land - near certain that it will come badly.