"I have Hayden's permission, but feel free to follow your convictions," Katrina nodded.
"You have a daughter in outdoor training right now, St. Marie. It would be utterly tragic if she experienced a crippling injury," Katrina sighed.
"You wouldn't dare," St. Marie took a few steps toward Katrina who stood up from her desk.
"Dare? Hayden and I have tolerated your intransigence until now," Katrina glared.
"Keep to your beliefs. Now you know the cost of standing in the way of progress," Katrina continued. "We cannot afford to remove you, but we can end your counter-productive thinking at this generation."
"When the Council finds out you've overstepped your bounds it will be the end of you," St. Marie kept coming.
"We are a dying people, St. Marie. Hayden and I are willing to kill as man
