it's only at the turning point (that you find out how you fight)

With an easy smile and a vivid sense of gratitude, Zeon gave Bolearis an old-fashioned salute: two fingers, aircraft departing from side peak of forehead.

Just a month ago, the lieutenant would have been shocked to see such a thing adorning the serious, at times stern commander of Colony 9. But now?

Well, exercise and good hobbies could work wonders, it seemed. And a little lazy companionship on the side, where Bolearis had been shocked to find it a mutual admiration society, and not just an invocation of his own natural tendency to idolize hard workers who got snuff done.