"Hi, Alex." She had to laugh because, damn all engineer geeks were the same, weren't they? She shook his hand with a ...precise grip.

"A few months now, spent most of it trying to figure out how to get back to where I was, which was apparently a waste of time. So if I'm here it's time to get to know the natives I guess." She shrugged and gestured for a server. "And how about you Alex? Having fun here in deep space?"