Talk. Her least favorite people skill. "Talk to you or talk at you?" She asked. There was a difference; if she needed background noise, Ice could monologue. If she needed to be engaged, that was going to be a trial. She didn't have much else to do though, so she might as well try to make her cell mate more comfortable.
Pragmatically, it was potential IOU for the future, and while she wasn't exactly proud of the fact she was thinking that way, the situation itself lent itself toward those thoughts.
A vague smile briefly touched her lips. "It might be the only way we would have met," she said. She certainly wasn't making much of an effort to be social, so unless Kate happened upon her when she was out of her room - or the one she'd claimed as her personal dance hall - it wasn't likely they would have had any sort of significant crossing of paths.
"Have you been here long enough to have an idea of how bad this will be, realistically, for us?"