Spaceships? You know what... she didn't need to know right now.

"Yes, you do have to handle them," she replied. She felt a wave of pride, new and old thoughts coupling together. It made her want to return to her husband's side, because it was where she should be.

"Trust me, I understand duty. I understand kings and being on the front line." She's understood it all her life. And yet... she needed to be here, too. "But. It doesn't change that I'm your mother, and that I agree with Krichevskoy." It would never matter how old Laharl was, or how capable he was. "I can't allow you. Not yet." He wasn't going to sway her.