[ she perks up considerably at the offer, her eyes brightening with the promise of new fascinating information she wouldn't be able to get back home. ]

I would like that very much. We know what she looked like but some of the details got fuzzy over the years. What you know of it is ancient history - very valuable lost knowledge.

[ as grim as it is to tell people the world as they knew it is gone, getting to talk to people from earth-that-was is one of the most special parts about being in abraxas for river. ]