"One of the best," Raleigh says, giving her a shadow of the cocksure grin he almost always had back in the day with Yancy. Jaeger pilots were practically gods then, especially when they were winning, and before he lost his brother, Raleigh had been a hell of a lot more confident.

"One of the only to manage to pilot one of the things solo, even if it was just temporary. Most people, it just overloads them."