“Call me Dash.”
Toni nodded, her eyes alight with amusement. “Dash it is, then.”
Dash grinned as she looked levelly at Toni, who was her height. “At last, someone I can look at eye-to-eye.” She glanced around the room. Though Colin had managed to vanish already, plenty of people towered over her. “I always feel like I am surrounded by trees here on the BrainTrust.”
“I get that. Any time it frustrates me, I just rent a laser tag copter and go shoot some of them down.” She shrugged. “I’m delighted to meet you. As you may already suspect, you’re the talk of the party.”
“I would have thought the SpaceR launch was the talk of the party.”
Toni acknowledged this. “Well, that too.” A mischievous gleam lit her face. “But you’re now known, at least among the old guard in this crowd, as ‘Dr. Das
