They can be dissolved by mutual agreement, yes. [Ari says this quietly. No need to mention that she wouldn't agree to dissolve a contract because someone wanted to play a cruel game. She'd force an alternative. As if her opinion of the captain couldn't get lower, too. That man can't really be command-qualified, behaving like that.]
[She is young. She takes advantage of the vagueness of the next question, because the answer she would give another Tradeliner is half a year. Half a year since she passed for lieutenant, and that's what's supposed to count - but he didn't ask how long since she qualified, specifically. He gets the answer that outsiders do when she thinks they're doubting her competence.] I've been out on the lines for about four standard years now.
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[She is young. She takes advantage of the vagueness of the next question, because the answer she would give another Tradeliner is half a year. Half a year since she passed for lieutenant, and that's what's supposed to count - but he didn't ask how long since she qualified, specifically. He gets the answer that outsiders do when she thinks they're doubting her competence.] I've been out on the lines for about four standard years now.