Yeah, she's aware her pain just serves to benefit somebody else. Always has. But she gives him a waver of a smile.

"Thanks, just don't expect me to write essays," Ava comments.

As out of reach as it feels along with everything else, she does look forward to trying. She's impossible in her own existence, so why not.

"So. Now that's out of the way," she says a bit apologetically. "You did promise to... inform me of the aftermath of the expedition." Maybe hearing what's been learned or achieved by it might boost her spirits a bit.