digitalbusker quoted The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
Hugo, Locus, and Nebula-Award winner Mary Robinette Kowal blends her no-nonsense approach to life in …
"I can't keep order--" Fantine talked over him, because she couldn't hear him yet.
— The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal, Mary Robinette Kowal (Page 41)
I appreciate all the layers of out-of-touch Kowal is putting on this guy. Archaic language and not matching everybody else's pronoun norms to start, then follow up with the repeated spectacle of this guy not remembering time lag despite being the chief of security on a goddamn long haul spaceship.