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Bill didn’t think he looked too young to have been working there seventy years; he didn’t tell her it was eighty. She didn’t look at him with that wide-eyed hero worship and longing he’d so often gotten from companions (and either been secretly pleased about or slightly uncomfortable with, depending on how much of a dick he was at the time.) She saved that look of awe and joy for her lessons. She loved learning. She looked at him like she was just terribly fond of him. This one! The old, cross-looking one! And he hadn’t even taken her to space!