Sonia sees that shudder and knows that Beth knows what she meant, maybe a little too well, and she bites her lip. But she doesn't seem to have greatly offended the outsider. She shakes her head.

"Well, you're not making things hard on me. You just caught us in a...bumpy period, is all." But she probably ought not to say more than that. Count Piotr's been insistent on maintaining control of information. "Not that anyone on the planet would be prepared for something like this. But we'll be alright. There's a hill village nearby. They've been helping us with supplies."