"You may not need me in order to seize Airgead Mountain," Isabell admitted smoothly, refusing to back down in front of this young lord's ire. When hadn't she seen men blustering that a woman couldn't be an engineer, couldn't study the art of warfare, or couldn't do any number of things she had already done? If she lost her temper every time some entitled man got his testicles in a twist, she'd never have secured her position as master of her guild.