Sonia gestures limply with one hand, letting her gaze wander. She doesn't feel the particular need to maintain eye contact.

"I didn't grow up here, mostly. Beta Colony. Where Doctor Niadem is from. My father's the Ambassador." She hasn't met Micah yet, but she sort of hopes to. Maybe...maybe the only person on this base with whom she has common ground, in sympathies, at least. She's aware that she's sharing more of herself than she really wants to with this stranger, but whatever. Her personal secrets no longer feel like hers to keep, here. "Total democracy. You know what they have there? A President. What do you think being a Princess on that planet means?"