your progressive hypocrites hand out their trash
It was disappointingly easy to assume that every commander (though his knowledge was limited) among the two armies had the same interests as he; that all who approached battle with zeal did so because they enjoyed it to its utmost, and all who hung back from the fray were perfectly tactical and diligent, justifying alternative actions.
Alexandria was not so. She was willful, stubborn, and overcompensatory. In Taion, the both of them had an exemplary mentor-confidant, but beyond that...perhaps she just needed to meditate, and she would calm down - a true calm, one beyond the dame's desired cool façade.