She looked down at their joined hands, frowning a bit. She couldn't imagine him failing anything, especially something he seemed to want so much. That was probably because where it counted, Kara had earned top marks. She hadn't accepted anything less than the same from the pilots she'd taught, either, and the one time she had...

Kara shook her head, clearing it, and forcing herself into the present. "Will you take it again?" she asked, giving a little humorless laugh and gesturing to their cheerless accommodations. "That is, if you can stand to leave all this?"