Learning to Dance

to do, and I got it done, Taz. Nothing more, nothing less.”
She didn’t respond, and he sought for something to say.
How’ve you been? I missed you every day. “You’re an
ensign now?”
She stood a little straighter. “Sí,” she said, and finally
smiled, a tentative one.
He smiled back. “Got your first assignment yet?”
“Not yet,” she said. “Things have been more or less put
on hold since your message arrived last week.”
“Well,” he said. “It’s a little soon for these arrangements,
I suppose, but once the Eagle is decommissioned, it looks
like I’ll be getting a new ship and needing a new crew. I’ll
be looking for talented new recruits from the Academy –
know anyone who’d be interested?”
He held his breath as she took in his words. Her smile
reached her eyes. “I think I might know of someone.”
And suddenly Up knew he was home.