"It's not exactly the family business," Lee says, though he knows what she's getting at. If his family had one at all, it was taking the oath and joining the Fleet, but considering how all of that has turned out, he'd hesitate to call it that. He has a feeling that, even under current circumstances, his father wouldn't be too happy with what he's chosen to pursue in Darrow.

Then again, they hadn't exactly parted on good terms.

"So your parents were politicians?" he asks.