His words pulled her from her piloting work and she turned to look at him. Their cultures were similar enough that neither were as easily expressive as the humans, but a shift in her face he could read. "They stole you and marooned you on a dead planet, insultingly expecting you waste away and die," she replied. "You had to save yourself first before you could think of what was happening here." That said, his people, for all their intelligence and advancement, she found sorely wanting in diplomacy and acting like allies. "I never spoke of those events, night terrors aside, so how did you come to know of it?"