[she smiles and shakes her head. Matter-of-factly:]
Oh, Commissar Cain and I had a bit of a fling a long time ago, when I was young and foolish and somewhat emotionally vulnerable. Now that neither one of us is any of those things, we're both perfectly content to remain friends.
[she clasps her hands underwater, and watches the pile of foam she made slowly drift apart]
I considered Colonel-Commisar Gaunt a friend and nothing more, as well—but he was rather forward with me yesterday, even considering the conditions for escaping the robot that had entrapped us.