Shopping isn't going to take that long. They should do tourist things!
"You should probably arrange to not have visited more of them," he comments. "Even with shifting the timing, it's a pattern, and it's not like there's a crowd of other ships visiting these systems that you can get lost in. There's the problem of refueling history, but I'm sure we can figure out a way around that if we try."
"All right," says Isabella. "I'll turn off logging for more places. Money would be tighter, if I turned in fewer logs - but I have you along to mitigate that, now, don't I."
"I'm so convenient," he agrees. "And now I think I'm going to go make convenient dinner."
"It's a special occasion," she says, referring to the warp drop. "Let's un-vacuum-seal a steak. I'm sure you'll do something marvelous with it."
Isabella puts on a Klingon opera soundtrack and reads along in the libretto as best she can. She's getting better!
Mmmmm steak. "Oh my. What did you do to it, this is really good - did you break into the bayleaves...? Mmmm."
"I just bet you have!" she laughs. "I'll be polite and not ask you the tricks of your trade."
"Lots!" he says, nodding. "I was a stage pickpocket for a while - that was lots of fun. And when I quit that, I tried card tricks next. Came in handy for cheating at poker."
"Why would you need to cheat at poker when you could just steal large amounts of money from yourself?"