Kinsella (Kinsella Universe Book 1) (28 page)

“I can’t begin to imagine.”

“That, for the time being, expedition commands are going to be few and far between.  That’ll ramp up steeply in the next five or ten years, but it’ll take time.  After Procyon, I’ll have commanded one and a half missions.  Time, he told me, to let someone else have a shot.”

“I know you want to explore, Steph.  I know what you’ve contributed to this... but maybe he’s right.”

“No maybe about it, Charlie.  He is right.  We don’t need one commander trained over and over at the expense of everyone else.  He wants me to head up the transition of Space Service to Federation Fleet.”

“That’s important!  Something you’ve worked really hard for!  And this is a problem?”

Stephanie Kinsella patted Charlie’s hand.  “No, no problem.  It’s something I can deal with.  It would help, though, if you could convince a certain Marine it would be in his best interest to rescue me sooner, rather than later.  If nothing else, fake it.”