Reading the second book in Elizabeth Moon's "Vattas Peace" series.

Ky Vatta is definitely a PC:

"We ready?" he asked when Ky had settled herself into the backseat.

"Better Be." Ky said. "I'd hate to have wasted all those hours trying
to make this plan as shaky and unworkable as possible."

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Leonard Erickson (aka shadow)
shadow at shadowgard dot com