She shrugged, a little abashed. "I was on Earth before I came here. I remember having a hangar, and working on an engine; rain was running down the roof, and I played the radio to cover the sound."

A sigh. "And if the people here are the sort i could have met back on Earth, I feel the fool for staying in the hangar so often, and not going out and seeing them." Seeing them while Earth was still there.