[That earns him an unimpressed look. You can offer information, or you can get assumptions, Joel, but you don't get to complain about the results of making that choice.]

Maybe.

[Alright, so she's making a few leaps. Does that make her wrong? Shepard takes her good, sweet time answering, as if to make a point... But she did bring him out here, and has thereby already involved herself. Makes her responsible, of a sort.]

Years. I honestly don't know why they keep bringing new people in. [And she's not the only one who'd dearly love to have that information, truly] But a good portion of the people here started off in Thorne, where they're a lot less nice about it.