"I'm not exactly very open about my feelings or...anything about me. I've been getting better through the years, of course, but I thought that was...abundantly clear by now." Where have you been, York? "And that day hit a few emotional landmines. It wasn't very pretty."

But that was then. Here and now is more important, at least to the immediate future. "No, no, I grew very fond of the command structure that he set up. He acted more like a supervisor sometimes than a captain. Sometimes. At the time I thought it was in his best interest to let me go, and I was more than willing to make that sacrifice. Stories of my great-uncle not helping matters much."