Did she want to talk about it? And if she did, what could she say? She couldn't explain being Operations. Or who Michael was and why she might be shooting him. She couldn't explain her mother thinking she was dead. And if she left out her future(s), then the past was right there, and that was something people liked to know about even less.

"You probably don't want to hear about it," she replied cynically, and sipped her beer, which avoided whether she wanted to talk about it very nicely. "No one ever really does."