( While she accepts the second helping with gratitude, she goes very still at his question. Of course he'd ask that, it's only natural.

And yet, her eyes sting, and her chest feels tight. Slowly, she nods her head. )

Some. They were aboard Fort Rozz, our planet's equivalent of a maximum security prison. My, ah. My mother's sister and her husband were among them.

Pretty much all of them wanted to kill me.