Oh. Well that was a relief; Allenby had been kind of worried for a second there. Not that she was about to show it. "Oh, is that all? Good to know." A bitch who can't take two seconds to tell me that you already sent help, that's what kind. Why don't you GET that?

...but she'd opt for the pop quiz instead of a smartass answer. Allenby was sure she'd learned the technical word at some point during her education, but she had kind of... deliberately forgotten a lot of it. Again, to piss off her handlers.

"The word I always got was insubordination or 'wasting Neo-Sweden's money.' But my world is different. We don't--we didn't have wartime anymore, not like here." Something came back. "Back in old times, I'd be gettin' hanged at a yard-arm. Is that the one?"