"Well, I couldn't sleep." Steren explained, taking the other woman's grin as encouragement to be...well something other than the distant but professional person she usually was with her fellow crew members. "Sometimes this helps." She added with a small, but genuine smile. "And...oh a long time now." She paused, trying to think of about when she'd started. "I was...maybe eight or so..."
About then, it occured to her that she should introduce herself instead of standing around kind of awkwardly and so she offered a hand. "Steren Allett. And you?"