"Comfort and peace is still a long-term goal. We will never stop fighting to help people, though there may be stretches of low activity in between those of higher activity."

He gestures around, expression serious.

"I would perhaps not have chosen this. But my experience in the Fleet has taught me that there is much to be learned in an unexpected situation, and that what one finds may be greater than what one could otherwise have had. I would not have had a year of a peaceful and comfortable life with my wife if I had not been taken once."