Dres rolled her eyes a bit, turning slightly towards Taerys. "Yeah, so were all of us--picked cause where we're from, we're top of the top, best of the best. But now we're on the Dawn, where we start off worst of the worst out of this group, and we all gotta learn it sometime 'til we earn not being it anymore. You lot can do whatcha like, but I'm not ground team, and the new guy isn't touchin' my stuff." It really wasn't ... well, probably not personal, hard to tell with this girl sometimes. She didn't like the look of him, at least, didn't liek how quickly he'd decided he was an authority, how he acted like he was automatically a friend to everyone, automatically anything more than their coworker.

But she didn't get a say in much of anything he did, other than that he wasn't touching her stuff.