"He did look quite the pretty farm maid in it." Zoe smiled, remembering. It'd been years since she'd even seen the captain and owner of Serenity. She nodded slightly. She winced as she saw it finally click, or start to.
"Can't say I can explain the hows and whys only that it happens. I've been here five years or so." She couldn't add that for her it'd been five years and then some since he died. He seemed to be taking his death well anyway, but that was Wash.
"People come and go. Some from different times, some from same times. Some were d-dead." She didn't waver often, her voice was usually steady, but there were times. "Some weren't. People have to live without the ones they love, or they gotta live with them round but not be with them." She couldn't help but think of poor Kaylee and her issues with Simon.
"Some people had to move on, make new lives." River had, and as far as Zoe knew still was. Somehow she'd yet to get the notice that River had been arrested.