"In my case, work calls always get replied to right away. Personal ones get to wait," she offered. Not that she got a lot of personal calls these days. It always fell into the work category. "Something's telling me to stay, anyway. Maybe it's the Force, maybe it's just some random hunch, maybe it's just my own stubbornness in wanting to work through some things. But while I have the opportunity to do this and figure out where exactly I'm going, I'm going to take it."

She would probably not have this viewpoint years from now, no. Fandom had maybe given her some sense of idealism, and if that idealism applied to what happened to her, well.