"Timelines are weird here," Pepper says, making a face. "So, you didn't come back at the same time as everyone else? I got here two and three years after my friends. Now they're even older than me," she grouses.

She looks away from Kane to watch the Chihuelans again, her brows settling into a frown again.

"I hate this. It shouldn't be this way," she says, but it almost sounds like she's talking to herself.