Cut to the chase then. He wishes he had the woman'a name - that would help, surely. "An outsider woman," he says. Only an outsider would have handled a stunner that crudely. "Dark hair and scars. I'm working on her name." If Wash doesn't know, then some of the others surely will. "She had orders to take the princess alive. No substitutions." Though he'd tried, damn it. For all the good that had done.

He keeps it short, simple. Enduring that rage even as he tries to find some way to help it. Some detail that will help Sonia.

More softly: "She wasn't badly hurt. The woman hit her with the stunner." Stupid, but he'd survived his own hit just fine.