[That's an interesting question, and Ethlyn sits back on her heels, wondering how to answer. She learned it from her own father, watching him take the information he had, then stand and act. But she can also see the other side of it--if a seed of doubt takes hold, it can grow into fear, watching a resolute father and wondering how you could ever live up to him. It didn't happen to Ethlyn or her brother, but with uncertainty already from having been adopted, she thinks she can understand Marianne's difficulties.]

It takes practice. And... to be honest, it can take making a mistake or two. [Mistakes can be terrifying when you know other people could pay for your error, perhaps with their lives. Perhaps your own....

But there are plenty of smaller, less dire ways to mess up.] When something goes wrong, it leaves you with no alternative but to pick up the pieces and persevere through it. And when you care about not making that mistake again, you find the resolve to keep it from happening again.