Graças a uma resenha da Amazon que listou as histórias, mas sem descrições
O conto é chamado:
"Os Trinta e Nove Botões" por Margeret Weis.
Do primeiro livro da série The Fleet Anthology:
"The Fleet", editado por David Drake e Bill Fawcett.
Encontrado e versão de e-book.
He saw a dress made of some silky black material, poured like shining oil over a body of surpassing beauty. And down the front of that dress, beginning just where a man—any normal, healthy, human male—might like to begin, was a row of buttons—shining, glittering diamond buttons. Roberts didn’t count them; at that moment he couldn’t have counted his fingers. But he knew that there were thirty-nine.
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“How many buttons are there on the full dress uniform of a naval officer, cadet?” Jeremy snapped, her voice the voice of Roberts’ instructor, way back in the days of basic training.
Ele não acaba chorando, mas certamente não está feliz no final.