"This space-time rift, how does it choose who comes and goes? And how does everything get back to its time and place? Back...home?" Back to her shuttle, back to her life of exploration...
It's not that Jenny isn't grateful to this...rift for saving her, because she is. She wasn't eager to be found by the Malinaks, to be shot. Again. But...what if her father comes back? Visits her time again, visits Messaline? She knows her father still believes her to be dead, but he could still come back. It's why she stops back there from time to time, to check in, to see if anyone's heard anything. She wants to be there if he ever returns.
The woman's voice shakes Jenny from her thoughts, "Hmm? Oh, I'm Jenny. And you are?"