"You aren't stupid," Vette barked out, in Basic. "Stop that! You're scary smart. You learned a language in weeks. You took an entire new world and you're understanding it, better than I am, and... I mean, I'm not stupid."

She was... pretty sure.

"If you needed space you could have said something, though," she added, a little resentfully. "Don't just... just leave me wondering what I did. For days. That's cruel, Nina."