Starbuck cringed a little. "I dunno, there are a few people from my area who I wouldn't be happy to see at all. You probably couldn't pay... well, not pay me, but barter or beg me either, to spend more time with them." One had already showed up, but that was neither here nor there, and she really couldn't bring herself to talk about it just then.

"'Course if they were friends, I guess...." She frowned. And she was very good at lying to herself and pretending that she wasn't seeing Sharon's face right then. "There's always the redemption thing. And the 'good old days' thing. And the 'needing whatever you had there back' thing. I'm not a 900 year old alien, though, so who knows."