"No," she agrees with her mouth set in a grim line. "I wasn't. It's sad." What she doesn't add us that aside from Astra and Clark, she's ashamed of her blood relations. Crossing her arms over her chest to ease how vulnerable she feels, she peers down at the console with him.

"The humans on this planet have too hard a time getting along to bother wanting to separate from the rest of the galaxy."

She snorts at that, a rare cynical moment that blessedly doesn't last.

"I guess that explains pretty much everything aside from how you ended up so far off course."