Wash manages a small smile. He knows York isn't. York is better than they are, definitely better than Wash is. He'd always been too blindly obedient and desperate just for a place that would accept him. Desperate not to fuck up his last chance and it had made him stupid.

That works better for Carolina. That's a concrete strategy. "That I can do," she agrees. Put the person in charge who Hargrove doesn't know, no matter how many files he's read because York had grown and changed in ways that he couldn't predict. "Training. Let's go."