"How can I help you, Lieutenant?" I asked. I knew her request would irritate me, but in a ship this small, with its limited crew, politeness was the only way to maintain sanity. "Don't be like that, Parker," she schmoozed, purposefully leaving off my Ensign rank. "You know what I want, and you know it will be fun. We're doing our last jump in fifteen minutes, and it's probably my last chance at Sublime Eternity." "There's...