[She draws in a breath.] I don't know who else I would explain it to, no one else is even far enough along to understand, I think. Though I suppose this lets me avoid trying to ask you where you are on the timeline back home, which I was trying to figure out how to do. Or maybe it doesn't, maybe nothing back home matters, it could just be that here matters. I mean, we're all human here, time seems to stop, people are from sweeps ago it feels like, and-

[She catches herself. She knows she's rambling, it's a lot easier to do in person than in text, really.]

You might as well have a seat.