The military preferred - invariably - those who could be readily defined, assigned roles, understood, and controlled.
Guy Gavriel KayIt was different, though, knowing something in your thoughts and then hearing it confirmed, made real, planted in the world like a tree
Guy Gavriel KayShe had been a solitary child, and then solitary as a woman, drawn into an orbit of her own that took her away from others, even those who would be her friends.
Guy Gavriel Kay