Wash is a familiar face here, has the villagers' trust. They might be more wary of her, but with him by her side it'll at least be somewhat dulled. He does wonder sometimes if his trust in her is misplaced, but. If not her, he does trust her intentions, and they're more than noble enough.

"Similar in motivation, then, or in what they claim their motivations to be." Pondering through what she says -- the Omnic Crisis, an unfamilar term, but he can guess from the context. An interesting name, whatever it means. Better than all this talk of great wars he's heard from different worlds, as well as his own. "How was the expansion?"