[ It's not meant to be. Sure, it's not meant to a jab by any means; she wasn't even thinking about Firefly in the slightest bit - just about how the Family has been covering Penacony up with things that would seem attractive to most guests, those who wouldn't look beyond the tinted glass to see the cracks...

She felt sorry for those people in a lot of ways.

Sure, it feels many ticks since things had some sense of normalcy, didn't feel like her world was going upside down, figuratively speaking. ]

It's fine.

[ It really, really isn't, but... it's not about her. ]

Even if this place is better, eventually we'll be heading back to Penacony. And I want to be prepared for when that time comes.