Someone in authority is one of Rosinante's good people. That's unexpected. It's strangely uncomfortable to consider, that someone who gives orders-- someone who isn't in Beacon, and thus in a category all their own-- who isn't a completely awful person. The Soldier tries to imagine working under a handler like that, in life, and struggles with it. Maybe it would be like Inspector Javert, a little, only Javert might disapprove of all the killing, so that wouldn't work, either. (And of course, Misty doesn't count, being only a handler on technicality.)

"What hard decisions?" it asks after a moment of silence, digesting the thought process and frowning softly, and another smoke.