"All ships need good charts." She at least understood that travel was complicated. It wasn't so simply done as just setting out and hoping. Maybe that meant it would take time for them to do it, that they couldn't do either what she or he said.

"How could I let anyone else fall to what happened to me?" Sighs, like she knows she should - just walk away, leave them alone. She knows what happens, she knows better than anyone what happens when an Empire elects to take someone else's home. There will be death, so much death, and it will not be on battlefields.