Back on Canceron, they'd had a saying--"the nail that sticks out gets beat down." Sophie'd kept to the spirit of the expression on Timandra, having learned too well that being noticed by her superiors never meant anything good.
But it just wasn't quite in her nature to back down before she'd even stepped forward.
"So, if you're the XO, what are you doing under a Viper?" She challenged, the words out of her mouth before she stopped to consider the consequence.