"It's okay," she says quickly, eager to ease Jim's discomfort before dealing with her own. "I know what you meant. "I... I didn't want you to think that I was putting down my own ship. It's not my ship, it's the circumstances..."
She had been full of nervous excitement when she first boarded the Chiron, but there was a sense of security, too. Space travel was safe, a regular occurrence for some people. The war changed everything. It took away every last reassurance that she had.
But, from the way Jim speaks, it sounds like there are no guarantees on his ship, either. "I'm sorry to hear that... we've had a number of close calls. We lost one of our ships -- a cruise liner -- when a Cylon detonated a nuclear bomb on it." She looks up at him hopefully. "But your ship survived... and it's safe now?"
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Date: 2017-07-13 01:19 pm (UTC)She had been full of nervous excitement when she first boarded the Chiron, but there was a sense of security, too. Space travel was safe, a regular occurrence for some people. The war changed everything. It took away every last reassurance that she had.
But, from the way Jim speaks, it sounds like there are no guarantees on his ship, either. "I'm sorry to hear that... we've had a number of close calls. We lost one of our ships -- a cruise liner -- when a Cylon detonated a nuclear bomb on it." She looks up at him hopefully. "But your ship survived... and it's safe now?"