She let out a faint huff of a laugh, more a sort of breathy sneeze than anything else. "You would have liked it where I was born. It's a few hours outside Tbilisi, but very small. Quiet, if you're the right kind of person."

Andy was not. It was why she had left: fear was a way of life in any place that had once been part of the former Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, and Andromache was fearless. She never hesitated to charge into a problem, to dive head-first into any challenge she found. It had made her a valuable asset to the unit in many ways.

"I do miss the horses, though. I grew up on a farm, so...I liked them. We had drafts."