Barret was awoken from his mid-eclipse musings by Melancthe digging him in the ribs.
"What you dreaming about?"
Most of the fun with the eclipse over, he decided to tell her about that time on Berann where he'd been in the thick of some fierce atmospheric air combat - not just any air battle, but one which had marked the beginning of a new era....
He had actually told his wife about this several times before, but neither of them knew it; they'd both opted to have their memories suppressed (not wiped completely) for items that bring pleasure in the retelling... keeping things always fresh and new.
Well, this was 700 hundred years ago, mind, ages