time, Petra had thought he was simply defending the job he’d spent his career doing, some grandfatherly pride talking. Years later, she understood that he had been teaching her how to see responsibility, laying groundwork for something she wouldn’t fully need until she was an adult standing at a recruiter’s office, trying to explain to a skeptical family why she’d chosen the exact same rating her grandfather had spent his whole career in.
Petra enlisted in the Navy at nineteen, a decision that landed in her family with a kind