She's quiet for a moment, then she shakes her head. "It ain't," she tells him, rather pertly. "It wasn't back home, and it ain't now. I learned that the hard way, I ain't goin' through it all again."

She wants to believe it's avoidable, she really does. But she believed that so long about the war with Farson, that she could keep her head down and her options open. It didn't do much to save her then, and she doesn't think it will now, even if she's still not picking sides.