"You have a point." Sasha's smile is made half from irony and half from gratitude. "Things are likely to move very quickly, once Ashari shifts out of social mode. How have you been finding the base so far?"

[One of the minor amusements to me in running Sasha is that she is more than a decade younger than me, and physically rather smaller, yet somehow gets mistaken for a teenager less often! "Full steam ahead" has its uses, I suppose.]