She meets Drinian’s eyes, and for an instant is reminded of the keen desert-bleached blue of the first person after her death who’d recognized her, and who’d been kinder far than he had any need to be.

(Joe Manco is my name - do you maybe come from Gilead, miss?)

Susan’s sudden smile is bright and shining, as she drops into a graceful curtsey for all that she’s wearing jeans, and says, “I’m Susan Delgado, late of Hambry in Mejis, and it’s wonderful to meet ye, Lord-Captain, say true.”