Vira-Lorr never quite realized how close Usagi had been to one particular person in her life. They'd never really discussed her own love life, so she didn't know how that ache might have been. It could be painful to be apart like that. But she was, even without that knowledge, hopeful that she could find happiness here.

"Even with the occasional little ... let's call them hiccups today..." Yes, because hiccups was definitely the nice version of what she could say right there for what happened in Trench. "This place is becoming better, piece by piece. We'll help them make this place hospitable slowly but surely. Together."

She really was getting optimistic in her own dottage wasnt' she?