How does someone bring up, 'so that dedication...me?' into the general conversation? No, she'll take the easier route and just go around that particular trap for the moment.

"I don't know, I think I'd want to keep someone so important to me safe as well." It's an easy thing to say even if the record company's definition of important is a far cry from her own. "Everyone should have someone they want to protect." Or follow. She'd promised to do both and look where it led them.

"Not yet," she has to admit. It was on her list of things to do, but, "I picked up a new job recently that's kept me busy, so I haven't had a chance to enjoy my time off yet." That and most of her time off was spent doing things like investigating what she could, keeping up with the others, and catching up on what knowledge she needed to learn.