Bashfully, he followed the taciturn girl. Out the door, down the stairs (the lift was broken), to the underground and across the city. He ran her new card through, when hers did not function.
Bashfully, he stood behind her on the escallator.
Bashfully, he spoke.
"It's your reactivation test today, isn't it?"
She silently nodded.
"Aren't you afraid to go back in that thing?"
There was a pause. "You are the commander's son."
"Yes."
Another. "Do you not trust in your own father?"
He turned away. "A father like him?"
She turned around, eyes full of daggers. Her hand came up, and... pulled his head in for a kiss.
She turned back, again facing her destination.
'Geez,' he thought, holding his cheek with his hand. 'I thought she was going to slap me.'