It feels familiar to be kissed that way specifically. It soothes her. She wants it all the time, forever, but that can't be a surprise. What would really be a surprise is if she knew anything about universal flux (fluces?), but mercifully she's as clueless as ever about that and just lets Kafka talk for a bit.

She chimes in again, though, when Kafka mentions the crew getting on without her. And she hates to um actually this, but... "I didn't have a Stellaron inside me before all this," she says, keeping her voice down in case anybody might overhear. "If something goes wrong here and nobody can stop it like they had to during the Antimatter Legion attack, this whole universal flux is going up in smoke."