Elizabeth is already interested, fascinated, even, by this gracefully elegant woman she's speaking with, but the response to talk of space travel only increases it. Most of the people Elizabeth meets in her work are from worlds that do not even know space travel, beyond that employed by the Wraith in their reign of horror across the galaxy.

"The Arkfall," Elizabeth says, repeating the words with careful precision. "I'm not familiar with it."

Her smile, though, is sympathetic.

"I'm sorry. I can't imagine losing this now."

Her life has been irrevocably changed by the Stargate Program, and she wouldn't step away.

There's a reason she was one of the people who went with John to reclaim Atlantis after they'd been forced back to Earth. A reason she couldn't settle to an ordinary life again, had withdrawn into herself for months.

She's unspeakably glad to have that life back.