[Three variations on the truth come up at once, but he leans into the first one to make it into speech.]

There was an excursion. I think we're the last ones left, besides the sorry idiots who tried to raft over the edge of the world. [literally shaking his head in disappointment] There was a lot of drinking, swimming, eating... I'm a bit surprised you didn't notice us. We're a fairly rowdy group.

[She leapt so immediately to escape that he assumes excursions to uncontrolled realities must be rare, if not unheard of. That makes sense; the Captain's a possessive and controlling man, and giving the passengers so much freedom goes against the entire premise of the experiment. Hell, it feels almost like bending the rules to let Friday man the tender, giving her a glimpse of a real world for once. What would Jenny do, if she knew Friday was only a mile and a half away...?]