"He never did anything to hurt her," she murmurs. "He took her in, when she'd nowhere else to go. But he stood for the Affiliation, and mayhap that were enough, in the end - for her, and Fran Lengyll, Kimba Rimer, Eldred Jonas and his harriers and Coral Thorin, and all the rest."

Susan draws a long, slow breath, and lets it out in a sigh, then tilts her head back to look up at him. "But what's done can't be undone, and we stood against them all and turned their plans to naught. I'd do it again, I would."