as the neons dim to the coat of white

"You really aren't much for strategy, are you?"

"Strategy? Why should I need one? There's fighting to be done. That's all the encouragement I need."

Alexandria heaves a sigh. She'd intended on stealthily gleaning advice out of Ashera, the famed Undying Blade, but instead all she's getting is a blatant disregard for the elegant throes of war that you've gotta pay attention to if you're ever going to get anywhere. She gets the feeling the only inter-colony relations Ashera's ever developed are wholly inter-national.

It's novel, sure, but the how and the why so grimly intertwined...there's more to it.