"She's certainly... a strong personality." Stratos is getting used to the texture of the meal, spurred on by hunger and the desire to finish swiftly. "It has been some years since I last met her, and perhaps she's become exaggerated in my memory. But... you can't be a quaestor in the Legion without a certain force of will. And volume. I think you'll find Lartia rather different to the rest of us. Not in a bad way," he adds hastily. "Maybe I should say that she has Marcella's backbone, Felix's sense of fun and Ushug's sort of attitude."