She takes the lead readily enough. Six months in, and she can navigate the command center in her sleep; doing so while in conversation is no trouble at all.

"No. --No, I don't know, that is. It's not my area of expertise, and if they have been making advances in that area, it's the sort of thing that would be best kept quiet. So far, the Sylphid haven't seemed interested in making a hard push on the camp, but if they thought the rebels were close to developing something that could prevent them from taking new hosts on this world, or make the ones they currently have toxic to them..."