Aries continues to converse with the pilot, Victoria Moridian and she reveals that she wishes to be less a plain old merc and more of a thinker.

She learned critical thinking when she was young and her sense of logic is clear, but she had little experience, save for her time in the Nightwatch and the training the Guild gave her.

What the secretary said before wasn't a lie. New recruits to the guild have a terribly high mortality rate...

[Artwork by my friend, the amazing, the indomitable, the one and only, Egardn4 of DA!]