Ketis did not know whether she had made the right decision.
Working for the Cross Clan for a year or so may turn out to be a waste of time.
Patriarch Reginald may have been overly harsh when he accused the mech designers under his employ to be worthless, but his words shouldn't be completely false.
One of the joys of working in the Larkinson Clan was that Ketis was surrounded by talented and competent clansmen.
Even if the mech designers of the Design Department were not necessarily high in rank, they were still young and possessed an abundance of ambitious ideas and rich imagination.
Spending lots of time with mech designers who possessed a lot of optimism and enough competence to realize their dreams fostered a very positive and encouraging work environment.
This was probably one of the secrets to the Design Department's success.