"People tell me efficiency is a virtue." Funny thing, they sometimes backtrack on that real fast when she tries to put it into practice...
"Ah." She shakes her head at his question, resting her elbows on the table and leaning forward a little. She has a plan, you see, and she's keen to share. "No, I figure I'll be in the service about sixty, seventy years." Golden Age lifespans being what they are, this is typically long enough to graduate from being 'the new kid'. She assumes that things will be much the same in Han's galaxy; he might just think her world has a really short year.
"I'll do my part, pick up all the skills and experience I can. And by the end of that I'll be qualified for the really interesting work with Clovis Bray or some other corporation out on Mars. Working on security for whatever weird and exciting projects they have sealed away."
It's not a complicated plan, but it involves getting from A to Somewhere Interesting and that's what counts. Having laid it all out, she takes a victory sip of her drink and tries to analyze the flavor before it hits her this time. Somewhere in the mildly stunned moment that follows she makes an absent amendment: "Unless the frontier turns out to be more exciting, I suppose."
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"Ah." She shakes her head at his question, resting her elbows on the table and leaning forward a little. She has a plan, you see, and she's keen to share. "No, I figure I'll be in the service about sixty, seventy years." Golden Age lifespans being what they are, this is typically long enough to graduate from being 'the new kid'. She assumes that things will be much the same in Han's galaxy; he might just think her world has a really short year.
"I'll do my part, pick up all the skills and experience I can. And by the end of that I'll be qualified for the really interesting work with Clovis Bray or some other corporation out on Mars. Working on security for whatever weird and exciting projects they have sealed away."
It's not a complicated plan, but it involves getting from A to Somewhere Interesting and that's what counts. Having laid it all out, she takes a victory sip of her drink and tries to analyze the flavor before it hits her this time. Somewhere in the mildly stunned moment that follows she makes an absent amendment: "Unless the frontier turns out to be more exciting, I suppose."