He doesn't have to worry about her asking for an explanation; even if the blood wasn't already giving her unpleasant reminders of events in her own past, she's not one to pry in other people's business. The man clearly deserves a chance to start over; she won't ruin it for him by being nosy.

"Yeah," she agrees, her smile turning wry. "It's why I keep coming back to the Nexus. It's a safe haven for me, a chance to catch my breath." When it isn't being invaded or doling out curses, anyway. "It has a lot of things that remind me of home. Things you can't get on a spaceship."

Quite the coincidence, that. It's a big multiverse, but how many humans are on the run from killer robots in space where Earth is a myth? "Shoot them before they shoot us?" she says with a small, uncomfortable laugh. "I'm just a civilian. My ship's a research vessel, we were studying infectious diseases when the war broke out... I've been doing some medical volunteering, too, but I don't know what our plan is, other than to stay ahead of them until we reach Earth."