TWENTY-NINE
MAYBE UNDERSTANDING how he did what he did would help. As it was, she couldn’t relax around him. The guy was a stranger, yet he knew things about her. Things that even she didn’t know.
“How did you do it?” she asked. “Change yourself so completely.”
“Training isn’t only in combat. We’re required to do whatever is asked of us. Sometimes that means going undercover… Harry is big on eliminating embarrassment. When we’re not doing combat training, we’re honing other skills. Skills that will be useful on missions or for ingratiating ourselves… Embarrassment is a cousin of fear; that’s one of Harry’s lines. So whether it’s line dancing in a honky-tonk bar or standing up unprepared on open mike night, he teaches us to face pretty much anything. Hesitation gets you killed. He instru
