Alright, alright, bug-eating charges successfully dodged. She gives Cassandra a winning smile back and a quick reassurance. "Incredibly so, but it could have been worse. I could have ended up one of the nuns and spent my life in a dusty tomb, until I died and then spent the rest of my animated death as a skeleton in that same dusty tomb. But I had plans to get out and join the Cohort, fight in space, earn my independence." Right up until that had been once again tore out from underneath her feet as cruelly as possible. "Now I'm a free agent while I'm here, figuring things out as I go by."

Is that enough to get her out of the doghouse? Only time will tell. Also, maybe a distraction might be good. "But what about you?"