"Ben wouldn't shoot me for stealing his ice cream!" Karla protested. "It's--wait, how rare is ice cream here?"

It didn't pay to be too hasty with the assumptions, after all.

"Kiss kiss, Ender. I see I'm going to have to spend a significant time out of doors to try to catch up to your tan." By which she meant 'to compete with Ben over who could get the most burned.'