She sat primly, knees together and hands atop them but not closed or clasped together.  Her body language was open, calm, inviting.  Yamina maintained a cool, almost disinterested look as Erich spoke.  Not even his mention of the diversion she'd had with Hiro caused her face to shift although she had to wonder how he knew?  It had been in the privacy of her cabin, with the hatch sealed, and neither she nor Hiro had spoken to anyone about it.  Some sort of surveillance?  That merited careful thought and examination later.<br/><br/>After Erich asked her what she wanted, Yamina counted slowly to twelve in Arabic in her head and only then spoke.<br/><br/>"For you to stop letting your own ego undermine your authority," she countered in a level tone.  "For you to lead instead of demanding.  For you to delegate the role of playing the heavy to your second in command and stand as the trusted and trusting head of the unit."<br/><br/>Again she counted to twelve, not looking away from Erich's face.<br/><br/>"You are older than the rest of us, but we are not the children you continually refer to us as.  By doing so you are not setting yourself up as the benevolent patriarch whose wisdom should be heeded, but as an authoritarian despot whose orders and motives must be constantly bucked and questioned.  Seeking to infantilize MechWarriors does not work.  It may with raw infantry recruits, mere peasants, who know it is their proper lot in life, but not with MechWarriors.  You turn our own aggression against you instead of wielding it against the enemy.  And you must stop bringing House politics into it, even if you claim to deny your own heritage and accept that of others.  A leader would not even acknowledge the potential for any home, any loyalty, beyond that of the company.  We are not Capellans or Kuritans or Steiners or even Periphery dwellers."<br/><br/>"Empower us to point out our flaws and where we can do better in a debriefing.  Set the tone that it is a learning environment and not a witch hunt.  Model proper courtesy and military bearing, never demand it.  That card can be but seldom played.  Pull us together as a unit, don't shove us into a mold we cannot match."<br/><br/>On her lap, Yamina's right hand opened palm up and gestured towards Erich, inviting him to reply.<br/>