Kostya nodded, making sure to stare her square in the eyes, trying not to be absorbed into them.
I hope they were right when they said my "conviction showed in my eyes", he thought.
"I've been aboard Zvezdny Gorodok for the past year and a half working in the fighter production facility, specifically the assembly and testing division. I've taken part in overseeing the final stages of the construction of the A-twenty-eight-hundreds, the Partisans, and their shakedown flights. To those ends I've been involved in mechanical error checks, electronic error checks, and have occasionally flown a short-range tug in order to recover flawed fighters that didn't make it far from the launch pad, for which I've attained a civilian pilot rating."
