"They have no right to praise a compliance they have not honestly earned." It is especially galling because Gadriel has had years of psychoindoctrination that tell him to respect authority, obey authority, follow orders with complete compliance. When he questioned Titus's methods, his challenges were always met with an authority that shut him down. He had learned to resent it, even then. And while he and the Lieutenant had mended the connection of brotherhood, something still stuck in him, like a barb, when a leader exercised evasion or deceit.

"I have not been here long enough to know what it is, but Aella has...has treated me in a way that I do not feel is worthy of my loyalty."