Silver Creek crimes against children are so easy to get away with.

Bat didn't remember nomi's parting words—what wasn't lost to the fuzziness of childhood was victim to the great repression—but it was probably true. She didn't know that she could explain herself to someone else. She'd been a child at the time, coping with an overbearing mother and an urgent need to stay with the commander, to not be left behind. That's all she could remember and even those once poignant emotions were blunted and dulled by time.

Bat hated conflict, so Artaax's insult normally wouldn't have gotten a rise out of her. But she was still sore from Kiwi's accusations, plus she was edging in on her teenage hormones and couldn't help the subsequent outburst (probably the first of its kind): "I don't want anything to do with Drageda! Or anyone from there! Just leave me the fuck alone!!!"