One of these days, someone is going to ask her if she's met someone and she'll be able to actually say yes. There's just so many people on this ship, easily ten times more than she's used to, and she hardly ever seeks anyone out on her own. Isolation will do that, probably, but then someone she's finding herself liking asks her if she knows someone they like and it almost feels like a failing when she has to say no.

"Not yet," she says instead, because that sounds a little more friendly than just no. "They're your friends?"