Adia smiles wearily. "It's hard to see in shades of gray when everyone around you insists that there's only black and white. But thank you. I don't know how open-minded I'd be if I hadn't been so close to Caspar." Maybe things would be easier if she'd never bothered to get to know him in the first place, but she doesn't voice that thought.

"I'm a microbiologist," Adia says, perking up a bit at the subject change. "We studied infectious diseases. It was research-only on the Chiron, but since we settled on New Caprica, my work became more practical -- trying to prevent outbreaks of communicable diseases, mostly. It was a crash course in public health."