Jo had gotten the point long before Wash seemed to realize that he was projecting. She gave him a sad little half smile. She was nursing a City-sponsored heartbreak herself, though she could only imagine what Wash was going through.
"The City was human for a little bit awhile back. We just need to find a way to do that again so we can shoot it in the face."
She didn't really care if the City heard them or not. There wasn't a whole lot more that it could do that was worse than what it had done already. At least, that's what she thought.
"In the meantime, that's what beer and ice cream is for. Do you want a beer?"
It wasn't that she was trying to brush off how Wash felt, but this was how she coped with things like this.