"The Lord of the Radch," Seivarden said. "Anaander Mianaai. And it was Breq. Anaander had forced her to kill someone she loved very much, and then destroyed most of her. Of course, shooting one of Anaander Mianaai's bodies wouldn't make a difference in the long run, she has hundreds of them, but Breq can be quite stubborn."

Unaware, Seivarden smiled as she sipped her tea. "It's a long story, as I said, but she ended up in command of a ship, and she let me come along as one of her lieutenants. Things have been calmer for a while now, so she sent me to Fandom for a while, but obviously it's not permanent.

Seivarden was easy enough to read for someone like Hannibal, so it was obvious that she loved Breq deeply and that she was nervous about when that return was going to be.