[ Ford, genuinely, was also not expecting to ask about Yang. He's never even met the girl, just heard about her secondhand from people from Remnant. But it's her absence that feels painfully relevant in this moment anyway. ]

You haven't seen her since before we came to Trench, right? How?

[ ... Well, that doesn't make much sense. Ford tries again. ]

I mean-- I felt like I was losing my mind when Stan was gone, even when the kids were still here, and that was only a matter of a few months.