Meanwhile, Rosie watched all of this with open-mouthed incredulity. Anywhere else in the world, she would have expected this sort of thing to happen, but here? On the deck of a battlestar? She wanted nothing more than to slink away and hide.
Her graduation night had been weird before, but now it was just starting to suck.
Still, she said nothing, and in fact her mouth snapped shut as she remembered exactly how she was supposed to comport herself in these situations. She stared straight ahead, not even blinking.
She'd been planed enough times in academy to know how to take it, even if she wasn't necessarily the one on the receiving end.