"Yes, sir," she says, again promptly.

There's more she could say about that, about she feels in the shuttles, with the controls under her hands, about the time she spends with the flight simulator Eshon lends her -

But this is about the progress in all of her studies. It's better not to get distracted.

So she moves on, her eyes turning down to her soup. "Vumija started teaching me about phaser rifles."