Kitty liked seeing him so sure of his place, it was something that her Quill sometimes lacked, not in a way that made him seem weak - just like he was searching for something and wasn't always entirely sure that he'd found it. He'd looked at her like that too - like maybe she had been what he was looking for. And for a while she'd believed it too, that she was that thing he'd been seeking in all the universe, but in time she'd seen that wasn't entirely true. Not in the way she'd needed it to be.
And then he asked about Gamora and she was a little surprised, not that he was curious whether or not that she was there, but the implication that he didn't actually say - whether or not they were anything. "She was there, she moved around a lot actually, did her own thing - she was with us for a while and then after the Black Vortex she left to find Thanos and kill him on her own." Quill had gone after that as well, to give into the Spartax's desire that he be the new emperor. "We found her again just before I came back to Earth with you, she came with us but -"
It was a lot, and really it wasn't something that he'd done, that he would do by the sounds of it, but it was probably better that he knew at least. "She found out that you knew the Avengers were holding Thanos and she left the Guardians again. I don't think you two have ever-" She held out a hand as she lifted her shoulders in a slight shrug, "If you have it's not something anyone told me about. And it's been a little while since I traveled with the Guardians, things might be different now too."