(Doors close. Burnham lies down on a bed. Doors open.)
Tilly: Lights. This is so neat. They er, they told me, because of my special needs, that I couldn't have a roommate, which was kind of a letdown, because a roommate is like an automatic built-in friend, and then they told me I was gonna have a roommate, and so now I guess that's you, and er... Hi, I'm I'm Cadet Sylvia Tilly. I talk when I'm nervous. My instructors advised me to work on that.