She blinks, a clear rough change in mental gears, but she manages with a bite of omelette.
"It's not so much trust as... well. They're a punishment platoon, so there's the sense wanting to obey the rules as much as possible, and... they have weird rules. They think I'm the boss because the Doctor said so and I'm wearing the captain's pin."
She scrunches her nose.
"And they respond to nanny-voice really well. It's not reassuring."
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"It's not so much trust as... well. They're a punishment platoon, so there's the sense wanting to obey the rules as much as possible, and... they have weird rules. They think I'm the boss because the Doctor said so and I'm wearing the captain's pin."
She scrunches her nose.
"And they respond to nanny-voice really well. It's not reassuring."