Oohhh. If he joined right after 9/11, the chances were...he'd been to Iraq. Lynne looked down. "Sorry, it was none of my business," she apologized, pushing her food around again. A moment later, she decided that would make her look like an anorexic or something, if he had noticed what she was doing, so she put the fork down again.
Lynne tucked her hair behind her ears and looked up again when he asked if she was traveling alone. "Yep," she sighed. "Story of my life," she added with a small smile that didn't quite reach her eyes. Now it was her turn to try to push negative thoughts away. Fair enough; she owed him one for being nosy. "You?" she asked reflexively hoped it wouldn't be strike two against her.