"Been on Vane's crew. I ain't going back to that." However she might feel about him now--it's a fondness born as much or more from seeing Jack's regard for him, and not always easily--she remembers the hardest days she had on the Ranger. It's nothing she intends to repeat, particularly not when it means she'll have walked away from Jack and towards one of the men he esteems most in this world.

The obvious doesn't need saying: Came to you because I want on your ship. He's probably already making up his mind, her luck. So she waits, watching him from under the brim of her hat.